With the use of antibiotics and improved dental care, osteomyelitis of the jaw is less common these days, But sometimes the management of osteomyelitis is more dificult because of appearance of resistant organisms to antibiotics.
Treatments of the steomyelitis are incision and drainage, closed catheter irrigations, sequestrectomy saucerization, hyperbaric ocygen therapy, and resection with or without bone graft. We experienced advanced osteomyelitis due to delayed
treatment
of
left mandibular angle fracture. He have medical history of pschysoprenia.
We decided to treat the patient with open reduction and closed cather irrigation. We achived reconsolidation of mandibular fracture accompanied by osteomyelitis by complete removal of inflammatory tissuses, rigid fixation with miniplate and
closed
catheter irrigation.
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