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An oral complication of bisphosphonate therapy
BMJ 2024; 386 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-081080 (Published 12 September 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;386:e081080Linked Practice
Bisphosphonates
- Sagar Khanna1,
- Brandon Prendes23
- 1Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
- 2Head and Neck Surgery, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic
- 3Facial Plastic and Microvascular Surgery, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic
- Correspondence to: S Khanna docsagarkhanna{at}gmail.com
During a routine dental examination, a 69 year old man was found to have multiple areas of exposed bone on the lingual aspect of the right mandible (fig 1). He had a history of myeloma and was being treated with lenalidomide and monthly infusions of 4 mg zoledronic acid for chronic …
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