Hyberbaric oxygen and bone reconstruction.

Introduction: The aim of this literature review was to determine the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy after bone reconstruction procedures in humans and identify information that may be useful for the development of optimal protocols for hyperbaric oxygen therapy to stimulate bone healing.

Evidence Acquisition: We searched the electronic database PubMed/Medline for studies published between January 1999 and December 2018, using the key words: "bone" or "bone graft" and "mandible reconstruction" or "jaw reconstruction" and "hyperbaric oxygen" or "HBO." First, the titles and abstracts of the studies found were evaluated and those that corresponded to the aims of this review were pre-selected for analysis of the full text.