[Maintenance of the patient's compliance during drug therapy for osteoporosis--refer to injection merit].
To prevent the osteoporosis-related fragile fractures, drugs usually used for a long period by oral administration of vitamin D, estrogen, calcium etc., or injection of calcitonin. These drugs must be continued with patient's good compliance. In the patients with severe osteoporosis the compliance of drug-injection is better than that of oral administration, because the patients usually visit the out-patients clinic once a week to receive the orthopedic treatment and the drug administered by injection with reliability.
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Professor Emeritus, Tottori University (Orthopedic Surgery).