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This chapter discusses the current knowledge, clinical presentation, preventive strategies and management of the dental diseases known as radiation caries, chronic graft-versus-host disease-related caries (cGVHD-related caries), and periodontitis in the patient following completion of radiation therapy.
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Bowers, L.M., Brennan, M.T. (2022). Dental Diseases and Management. In: Nair, R. (eds) Orofacial Supportive Care in Cancer . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86510-8_15
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