Dental therapy before and after radiotherapy - An evaluation on patients with head and neck malignancies

Clinical Oral Investigations

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-164

  Sennhenn Kirchner, Sabine ^a   Freund, Friederike ^a   Grundmann, Sven ^a   Martin, Alexios ^a   Borg von Zepelin, Margarete ^a   Christiansen, Hans ^a   Wolff, Hendrik Andreas ^a   Jacobs, Hans Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluoride application; Mucositis; Osteonecrosis; Prevention; Radiation caries; Radiation sequelae; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTICARIES AGENT; FLUORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; SKULL IRRADIATION; SPLINT; STATISTICS; STOMATITIS; TIME; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARIOSTATIC AGENTS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DENTAL CARE FOR CHRONICALLY ILL; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOSITIS; SPLINTS; STOMATITIS; TIME FACTORS; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 67649391008     PISSN: 14326981     EISSN: 14363771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00784-008-0229-1     Document Type: Article

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