Why should nasal cavity cancer have tooth extraction?

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Many patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma will be asked to have an oral examination before radiotherapy, and this situation may generally lead to problems in the patient's body, many patients will not understand why to do oral endoscopy, some patients are also required to extract teeth, now let me talk about why to extract teeth for nasal cancer?.

Why should nasal cavity cancer have tooth extraction?

First: to have an oral examination is to check whether there is an infection focus in your mouth. Any infection focus will be more serious after receiving radiotherapy, and will affect the curative effect of radiotherapy.

Second: the site of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is at the top and side wall of the nasopharyngeal cavity. If there are dental caries and other conditions, early treatment is needed before radiotherapy. Extraction is not allowed within two years after radiotherapy, because it is easy to cause jaw necrosis after extraction, especially the necrosis of mandible. Once there is jaw necrosis, it will cause more trouble to patients.

Third: in the examination, if you find that there are caries and other problems, the doctor will recommend that patients first extraction. And when metal dentures are found, the dentures should be removed first. It can be said that doing oral examination is to eliminate all the adverse factors of treatment one by one, so that patients can better receive treatment.

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A lot of preparations need to be done before radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Dental examination and extraction of problematic teeth before radiotherapy are necessary for the smooth progress of radiotherapy. NPC patients and their families must actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment, follow the doctor's advice, in order to get the best treatment effect.