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It is interesting how no one seems to know much about the osteo or osteoradionecrosis, (medical people) . The biggest thing was for me to keep caling and asking around town, not alot of docs/dentist have dealt with it. My scrape to the lower inside of my gums progressed (04/07 initial injury) to in 9/07 I had huge peridontal pockets (they say) to where you could just flap back gum tissue off the 2-3 back molars . At first they thought it was an abcess, because it was a white pimple area, no pus would come out then the white would go away and the gum could be flapped away. I did have a lot of pain under my jaw and you could feel a lump under my jaw and they would put me on antibiotics to calm down the outside. The hyperbaric oxygen was done at a hospital they have 2 chambers which are individual chambers. this allows for customizing and I like better then a group chamber, I did 20 "dives" slept most of the time or watched movies, within the first 2 weeks my mouth started to heal, this 5months since it started, I had tried almost anything and now I have had even another root canal then 10 more dives, my teeth cleaned and not alot of pain except for my TMJ joints, because my teeth have all shifted, and I clinch them at night. I was told if anymore dental procedures then you do 10 follow up dives. They have seen people with extractions heal up after O2 dives. As far as the stroke hx the medically eval you before you go in, they actually reccomend it post WBR rads and also use for Cerebral palsy. I went to Chandler Regional Medical center in Chandler, Az the tech there is DAN he was a "jaw" saver, he answered all my questions and reffered me to web sites, because everyone I talked too hadn't really messed with hyberbarics, nor thought it would help, but I pursued it and the insurance company paid for it because of the "radio" radiation component of the osteonecrosis. Medicare will pay for it with radiation hx. Sorry so long and scattered but ask anything if I have forgotten . Darita