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ArticleJournal of contemporary brachytherapy2018

High-dose-rate brachytherapy in severe trismus: Making it happen!

Kanchan P Dholam, Gurkaran Preet Singh, Sarbani Ghosh Laskar, Sandeep V Gurav, Gorakh S Ahire

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Article in Journal of contemporary brachytherapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Kanchan P DholamDepartment of Dental and Prosthetic Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, HBNI, Mumbai.
Gurkaran Preet SinghDepartment of Dental and Prosthetic Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, HBNI, Mumbai.
Sarbani Ghosh LaskarDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, HBNI, Mumbai, India.
Sandeep V GuravDepartment of Dental and Prosthetic Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, HBNI, Mumbai.
Gorakh S AhireDepartment of Dental and Prosthetic Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, HBNI, Mumbai.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brachytherapy has been widely employed as a salvage or adjuvant modality in localized early and/or recurrent lesions. In recent years, advances in brachytherapy techniques have helped to achieve better loco-regional disease control and higher survival rates at the cost of limited morbidity. This is mainly owing to the development of technologically advanced three-dimensional computer planning systems and treatment delivery techniques. Low-dose-rate brachytherapy has been substituted by high-dose-rate and pulsed-dose-rate techniques, which allow better dose optimization. Inter-disciplinary approach results in fabrication of customized intra-oral surface mould, which allows accurate dose delivery, excellent dose distribution, and is less time-consuming. However, fabrication of surface mould becomes extremely challenging when intra-oral anatomic factors are unfavorable. We present a report on the management of a previously-irradiated completely edentulous patient with severe trismus for whom high-dose-rate surface mould brachytherapy had been prescribed. A unique, reliable, and practical solution has been presented based firmly on the scientific knowledge of contemporary implant dentistry.

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dental implanthead-neck cancersurface mouldtrismustumor recurrence

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PMID30237821
PMCPMC6142643

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