Treatment perspectives for medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ)

The medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) is believed to be a therapy-resistant entity. Although the application of the recommended conservative and surgical treatment regimens have returned variable success rates, the increased awareness and experience with MRONJ suggests that surgical therapy can halt the progression of the disease, thereby allowing a histology-based diagnosis of the osteonecrosis. Surgical treatment protocols can achieve success rates of over 90% and novel techniques such as the visualization of bone fluorescence can assist in the intra-operative delineation of the osteonecrosis and standardize the procedure. (C) 2014 European Association for Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.