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Cryosurgery for oral soft tissue lesions: a literature review and clinical applications

Author(s) -

King S.,

Ariyaratnam S.

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

oral surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.156

H-Index - 11

eISSN - 1752-248X

pISSN - 1752-2471

DOI - 10.1111/ors.12440

Subject(s) - cryosurgery , medicine , soft tissue , terminology , protocol (science) , dermatology , surgery , pathology , linguistics , philosophy , alternative medicine

Cryosurgery is simply therapeutic tissue destruction, using the application of extreme cold. This article provides an update of the use of cryosurgery in soft tissue oral lesions; we outline the general principles, process of tissue injury, variables affecting the extent of freezing, advantages and side effects. Furthermore, we describe the application protocol of cryosurgery in a clinical environment, and introduce the terminology of cryodose for the literature.

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