Cavitation (bone)
Cavitations are an area of dead bone caused by a dearth of blood flow to that part of the bone.[1] A cavitation is a hole in the blood vessel that cannot be visually detected with the naked eye.[2] Jawbone cavitations, also called neuralgia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis (NICO) if they are associated with pain, are extraction sites in the jaw that have not healed.[3]
References
- ^ "Cavitations". Millennium Dental Associates. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
- ^ Evans, Karen. "Cavitations - (from Issue #1 of Cavitations Plus Quarterly newsletter)". Power of One Publishing. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
- ^ Kristal, Harold; James M. Haig; John Lee (2002). The Nutrition Solution: A Guide to Your Metabolic Type. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books. p. 216. ISBN 1-55643-437-5.
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