Cryonics as Cryotherapy in Oral and Dental Care: A Clinical Review of Mechanisms, Devices, Care and Risk-benefit Appraisal
Louis Zalman Glick Touyz*
1School of Dental Medicine and related Sciences , McGill University, Montreal P.Q., Canada .
Corresponding author Email: touyzlouis@gmail.com
Cryonics in expanded dentistry and oral medicine embraces various uses of Cytotherapeutic care. Oral Cryotherapy exists in different forms. (1) Cryosurgical ablation (purposeful tissue obliteration); (2) Non-ablative cooling, mainly (take out word to) as prophylaxis of mucositis from chemotherapy; (3) Vital Pulp-testing (add in -) by pain induction for rapid vitality-pulp-testing. This review assembles clinical indications, the simple biophysics of procuring “cold-freezing-on-demand,” indicates peri-operative care, describes some ubiquitous devices and cryogens, the results of cryotherapy, lays-out pragmatic advantages/limitations and disadvantages, and stresses diagnostic safeguards for pre-malignant lesions.
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Touyz L. Z. G. Cryonics as Cryotherapy in Oral and Dental Care: A Clinical Review of Mechanisms, Devices, Care and Risk-benefit Appraisal. Enviro Dental Journal 2026;8(1).
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