|
Table 3: Treatment options comparative. |
||||
|
|
Conservative treatment |
Surgical treatment |
Sclerosing therapy |
Joint treatment |
|
Advantages |
• Spontaneous involution in 17.7% • Avoid morbidity from surgical treatment |
• Improves patient • Improves aesthetic conditions • Avoid complications related to the airway • Promotes adequate growth of the maxillomandibular complex • Recurrence of 13% |
• 40% effectiveness • Mediate response of 50% and complete • Outpatient management |
• Reduces the size of the lesion and with it the damage to adjacent structures • Less recurrence compared to isolated therapy |
|
Disadvantages |
• Does not improve the patient’s airway • Does not decrease the risk of complications • Requires palliative management in symptomatic lesions |
• Surgical morbidity • Risk of dysgeusia and tongue paralysis • Hospitalization is • Risk of complications from 12 to 33% |
• Does not immediately resolve complications related to the airway • Persistent pain and local fibrosis • Increases the probability of presenting anaphylactic shock |
• Delayed evolution |