Cavitations are an area of dead or dying
bone. They are caused by infections, physical trauma, or a dearth of
blood flow to that part of the bone.
There is little evidence to support the theory of cavitation in the jawbone, and their diagnosis is highly controversial. Proponents claim they primarily affect the jawbone, yet that cavitations are able to affect any bone.
Jawbone cavitations, also called
neuralgia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis Neuralgia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis (NICO) is a controversial diagnosis whereby a putative jawbone cavitation causes chronic facial neuralgia; this is different from osteonecrosis of the jaw. In NICO the pain is said to result from the ...
(NICO) if they are associated with pain, might be extraction sites in the jaw that have not healed.
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Jaw disorders