<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><article><front><Journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type='publisher'>DJ/178/2026</journal-id><journal-title >Enviro Dental Journal</journal-title><issn pub-type='PPub'>0125-888</issn><issn pub-type='ePub'>0125-895</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Enviro Research Publishers</publisher-name></publisher></Journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type='other'>cwe-31-32-000</article-id><title-group><article-title><p>Cryonics as Cryotherapy in Oral and Dental Care: A Clinical Review of Mechanisms, Devices, Care and Risk-benefit Appraisal</p></article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname>Touyz</surname><given-names>Louis Zalman </given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id='aff001'><sup>1</sup><instname></instname>,<deptname>School of Dental Medicine and related Sciences </deptname>, <instaddress>McGill University</instaddress>, <instcity>Montreal P.Q.</instcity>, <instcountry>Canada</instcountry>.</aff><pub-date pub-type='ppub'><publicationDate></publicationDate></pub-date><volume>  Volume 8</volume><issue>issue 1</issue><abstract><title>Abstract</title><p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:black;\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-language:FR-CA;mso-themecolor:text1;\" lang=\"EN-CA\">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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></p></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Ablation</kwd><kwd> Cryotherapy</kwd><kwd> Cryosurgery</kwd><kwd> Freezing</kwd><kwd> Liquid Nitrogen</kwd></kwd-group><counts><ref-count count='' /><page-count count='' /></counts></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title></ref-list></back></article>