Tooth Extraction Timing After Head and Neck Radiotherapy: A Critical Reappraisal of Osteoradionecrosis Risk and Biological Vulnerability

Aims

To critically reappraise the post-radiotherapy tooth-extraction waiting-period paradigm and examine whether extraction timing is better interpreted within a broader framework of biological vulnerability than as an isolated temporal determinant of osteoradionecrosis of the jaws (ORNJ) risk.

Methods