: : : 2006-06-12 to 2006-06-18
ONJ from osteoporosis drugs
June 13, 2006 21:27
As we are seeing in the case of necrotic jaw bone disease - since the body is left with a boney structure that does not have new and healthy osteoblasts that are going to mature into osteocytes. It means that more of the bone cells are like vacant apartments (or worse yet, apartments with a dead occupant). The result of not having healthy bone cells is that the blood flow through the bone is then reduced which can result in pervasive bone death - where all of the cells in the bone die because there is not enough blood flow.