Talk:Osteoradionecrosis

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 4 August 2019 and 14 September 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Nicoespi. Peer reviewers: Aberezov123.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 01:59, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

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We have an MRI, a clinical photo would be good too...lesion (talk) 22:00, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Reorganization and Consolidation
Hi all, I was reviewing the article and have some ideas for improving it. I feel the content is excellent and up to date with good references. However, I think that in the attempt to provide a comprehensive article, it has become cluttered. I would like to propose consolidating the "Pathophysiology" and "Aetiology" sections. I also would like to condense and improve the flow of the prevention/treatment sections. Thoughts? --Nicoespi (talk) 18:09, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

--UPDATE I've made changes to the introductory paragraph and created an etiology/epidemiology section. There are a lot of redundant references, but I will clean this up once I am finished with the article.Nicoespi (talk) 16:42, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Pathophysiology
For this section, I want to provide readers with the most recent understanding of ORN (radiation-induced fibrosis) while showing some of the history (radiation-trauma-infection theory and hypocellular-hypovascular-hypoxic theory) to provide them with an understanding of the evolving treatments. I plan on reorganizing this section, and moving the "staging" section to the "clinical signs" section since it seems more pertinent. --Nicoespi (talk) 14:26, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Prevention and management
This section is especially challenging to write as a Wikipedia page, because the goal is to be informative without attempting to make recommendations. Additionally, I believe this section is currently written from a primarily dental lens rather than neutral. ORN is a disease seen by primary care, ENT, radiation oncology, oral maxillofacial surgery, and dentistry, so I think it should be written from a more broad perspective. I would like to preserve some of the information about dentistry as I think it is pertinent and helpful, but I will plan on condensing it to make the article flow better. --Nicoespi (talk) 14:34, 13 August 2019 (UTC)