Modern Aspects of Comprehensive Treatment of Acute Odontogenic Osteomyelitis of the Mandible in Children

Acute odontogenic osteomyelitis is a purulent—infectious inflammatory disease of the jaw bones, in which the source of infection is teeth affected by caries and its complications. Teeth give the jaw bones an anatomical feature not found in other parts of the skeleton. Only in the jaws is the bone tissue in direct contact with the source of infection, from where the infection can come for a long time. This makes the mechanism of development of acute odontogenic osteomyelitis different from the mechanism of development of the disease in other bones.