It's important to learn more, once you've seen people whose spines are so crumbled and filled with fractures that they cannot get out of bed for weeks, and suffer excruciating, incessant pain that narcotics don't even touch.
Trial lawyers looking for plaintiffs to represent in jaw necrosis lawsuits usually do not talk about this key consideration, which does
not apply the average person prescribed these drugs for typical osteoporosis:
American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
Position Paper on Bisphosphonate-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw—2009 Update
Background
Indications and benefits of bisphosphonate therapy
Intravenous (IV) bisphosphonates are primarily used and effective in the treatment and management of cancer-related conditions including hypercalcemia of malignancy, skeletal- related events associated with bone metastases in the context of solid tumors such as breast cancer, prostate cancer and lung cancer, and management of lytic lesions in the setting of multiple myeloma. 2-13 While bisphosphonates have not been shown to improve cancer-specific survival, they have had a significant positive effect on the quality of life for
patients with advanced cancer involving the skeleton.
..The clinical efficacy of oral bisphosphonates for the treatment of osteopenia/osteoporosis is well established and is reflected in the fact that over 190 million oral bisphosphonate prescriptions have been dispensed worldwide. 47 The specialty’s experiences have identified several BRONJ cases related to oral bisphosphonates.
Patients under treatment with oral bisphosphonate therapy are at a considerably lower risk for BRONJ than cancer patients treated with monthly IV bisphosphonates......
http://www.aaoms.org/docs/position_p...onj_update.pdf