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A risk of tooth extraction after radiation therapy is the condition known as osteoradionecrosis, for which there is no cure.

Because osteoradionecrosis is rare and poorly predictable, a mandatory dental referral and clearance prior to receiving radiation to the jaw is not yet the standard of care.

In rare cases, the infections can cause the jaw to weaken and eventually fracture — an often painful disease called osteoradionecrosis, which has no known cure.

Instead, by the time he finally obtained dental coverage, the risk of osteoradionecrosis was irreversibly established.

But in time, a few of his dental extraction sites started to break down, exposing dead bone tissue on both sides of his lower jaw, establishing his diagnosis with osteoradionecrosis.