title: Cryosurgery as an effective alternative for treatment of oral lesions in children.
abstract: Children can exhibit a wide variety of oral pathologies, such as oral lesions, bone lesions, tumors, cysts and cutaneous lesions. Different techniques have been described for the treatment of these lesions, but all of them are invasive. This paper presents a series of cases that demonstrate the clinical efficacy of cryosurgery as an alternative to invasive surgical treatments of the most common oral lesions in children. This technique has been well tolerated by patients due to the absence of anesthesia, rapid healing and minimal bleeding. Cryotherapy has many applications in oral medicine and is an extremely useful alternative in patients to whom surgery is contraindicated due to age or medical history. It is a simple procedure to perform, minimally invasive, low-cost and very effective in pediatric dentistry clinic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Dental School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Karla Mayra
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Rezende
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Surgery, Dental School, São Leopoldo Mandic Dental Research Center, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Paulo de Camargo
authors.initials: Pde C
authors.lastname: Moraes
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Radiology, Dental School, São Leopoldo Mandic Dental Research Center, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luciana Butini
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Surgery, Dental School, São Leopoldo Mandic Dental Research Center, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luiz Alexandre
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Thomaz
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Radiology, Dental School, São Leopoldo Mandic Dental Research Center, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: José Luiz Cintra
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Junqueira
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Dental School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bönecker
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003452:Cryosurgery; D006801:Humans; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000601:surgery*