"The use of nuclear medicine is limited due to high cost and low specificity, with scintigraphy having high sensitivity for early osteoblastic changes and PET/CT evaluating soft-tissue inflammation and tumour recurrence 6."
"Given that dental extractions increase the patient's risk of developing mandibular osteoradionecrosis, it is not uncommon to obtain an OPG prior to treatment to rule out potential dental abnormalities 5."