Complementarity of Surgical Therapy, Photobiomodulation, A-PRF and L- PRF for Management of Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (MRONJ); an Animal Study

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Complementarity of Surgical Therapy, Photobiomodulation, A-PRF and L- PRF for Management of Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (MRONJ); an Animal Study

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Background: This study aimed to evaluate the complementarity of surgical therapy, photobiomodulation (PBM), advanced platelet-rich fibrin (A-PRF), and Leukocyte and platelet-rich fibrin (L-PRF) for the management of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ).

Methods: Sixty rats underwent injection of zoledronate followed by left mandibular molar extraction to induce MRONJ lesions. All rats were examined for the signs of MRONJ eight weeks post-dental extraction. Forty-nine rats with positive signs of MRONJ were appointed to seven different groups as follows: C (control), S (surgery), P (surgery + PBM), A (surgery + A-PRF), L (surgery + L-PRF), A+P (surgery + A-PRF + PBM), L+P (surgery + L-PRF + PBM). Euthanasia was carried out 30 days after the last treatment session. The lesions' healing was evaluated clinically, histologically, and radiographically. Data were analyzed using STATA software version 14, and the statistical significance level was set at 5% for all cases.

Results: According to the present study, A-PRF and L-PRF treatment resulted in significant improvements in clinical, histological, and radiographical parameters compared to the C group (P ˂ 0.05). The PBM also decreased wound dimensions and the number of empty lacunae compared to the C group (P ˂ 0.05). A+P and L+P were the only groups that presented a significantly higher mean number of osteocytes (P ˂ 0.05). No significant differences were observed between A-PRF and L-PRF treatment groups (P ˃ 0.05).

Conclusions: Surgical resection followed by applying A-PRF or L-PRF reinforced by PBM showed optimal wound healing and bone regeneration in MRONJ lesions.

Photobiomodulation Therapy

Laser Therapy

Platelet-Rich Fibrin

Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw

Zoledronate

Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) is a side effect of antiresorptive and antiangiogenic drugs widely prescribed for the oncologic and skeletal system's metabolic diseases, such as Paget's disease and bone metastases of the malignant neoplasms [1]. While these medications may significantly affect the diagnosed diseases' treatment, they can induce necrotic lesions of the jawbones, particularly following invasive dental treatments such as tooth extraction [2].

It is believed that the combined effect of extreme bone remodeling suppression, bacterial infection, angiogenesis inhibition, and immunological dysfunction may lead to oral mucosa's incomplete healing and jaw osteonecrosis [3, [4]. The jaw osteonecrosis association with bisphosphonates usage was first presented by Marx [5] in 2003. The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) has defined MRONJ by the simultaneous presence of three following characteristics: persistently exposed bone or a bone that can be probed via an intraoral or extraoral fistula in the maxillofacial region for more than eight weeks; pervious or current antiangiogenic or antiresorptive treatment; and no history of radiotherapy or jaws' metastatic diseases [6]. MRONJ may affect the patients' quality of life and overall health by causing significant pain, infection, and functional disabilities.

The current MRONJ treatment goals are controlling the pain, secondary infection, and necrotic areas progression while supporting ongoing medication treatments. Surgical and non-surgical conservative therapies are the two main conventional methods for MRONJ treatment [6, [7]. The gold-standard treatment for MRONJ has remained a controversial subject. Due to ineffective healing and high recurrence rate, recent studies have focused on upgrading conventional methods by adding adjunctive therapies such as photobiomodulation (PBM), hyperbaric oxygen, ozone, teriparatide, and autologous platelet concentrations (APC) [8, [9, [10].

Bio-stimulation through laser irradiation appears to be a simple and non-invasive way to relieve pain and improve wound healing [11, [12]. It has been discovered that photobiomodulation ameliorates bone formation by increasing the osteoblasts' proliferation and differentiation, calcium deposition, collagen type 1 formation, ATP synthesis, and growth factors secretion [13].

Leukocyte and platelet-rich fibrin (L-PRF) and advanced platelet-rich fibrin (A-PRF) are second generations of APCs obtained by eliminating additives in centrifugation [14]. They are three-dimensional fibrin scaffolds capable of releasing numerous cytokines and growth factors and hence great stimulators for local tissue regeneration [15, [16].

Given the challenges of MRONJ management, we aimed to evaluate the effect of using adjunctive therapies, including PBM, L-PRF, and A-PRF, on the MRONJ healing and new bone formation in the affected areas.

Animals:

This animal study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Hamadan University of Medical Science (IR.UMSHA.REC.1399.448) and conducted in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. All methods are reported in accordance with ARRIVE guidelines.

60 male Wistar Albino rats (300-350 gr) were provided and adapted to the laboratory temperature and humidity for ten days before the study commenced. The animals were provided with a standard diet of rat pellets and water ad libitum.

MRONJ induction:

Zandi et al. [17] protocol for MRONJ induction with an 83% success rate was applied in this study. The animals received an intraperitoneal injection of 0.06 mg/kg zoledronate (Zolena, Ronak Pharmaceutical, Saveh, Iran) once a week for six weeks, followed by the left mandibular molar tooth extraction at the end of week 6. The extractions were conducted under general anesthesia with an intraperitoneal injection of 75 mg/kg ketamine hydrochloride (Ketamine Hydrochloride, Laboratoires Sterop, Brussels, Belgium) and 7.5 mg/kg midazolam (Midazolam, Chemidarou Industrial Company, Tehran, Iran). Once the sedation was verified, rats were placed supine, and the tooth was luxated and extracted using dental surgical forceps. For analgesia, 2 mg/kg ketorolac (Ketorolac, Caspian Tamin Pharmaceutical, Gilan, Iran) was subcutaneously injected post-extraction. For three postoperative days, animals were fed crushed pellets as a soft diet, and amoxicillin drops (50 mg/ml, Amoxicillin, Tehran Chemie, Tehran, Iran) were added to their drinking water (1.5 mg/ml of water). The zoledronate injections were continued for another six weeks after the tooth extractions.

Study groups:

Eight weeks post-extraction, all rats were examined for signs of MRONJ defined by AAOMS [6]. During intraoral examinations, mesiodistal (MD) and buccolingual (BL) dimensions of the wound and exposed bone area were measured with a graduated probe. Moreover, the presence of extraoral and intraoral fistulas was noted. Eventually, 49 rats with positive signs of MRONJ were randomly appointed to seven study groups (Table 1).

Table 1

Study groups (n=7, each).

Groups	Intervention
C	No intervention (control)
S	Surgical resection^*
P	Surgical resection + PBM
A	Surgical resection + A-PRF
L	Surgical resection + L-PRF
A+P	Surgical resection + A-PRF + PBM
L+P	Surgical resection + L-PRF + PBM

^* Using a surgical round bur to remove the necrotic bone to reach the healthy bleeding bone margins.

Photobiomodulation:

An 808 nm diode laser (3L-IR, Hamerz, Tehran, Iran) with a spot size of 0.28 cm² was used on 1^st, 3^rd, 5^th, 7^th, and 10^th postoperative days, following these parameters: continuous-wave noncontact mode; 0.5 W power; 1.4 J energy per point; 5 J/cm²radiant exposure; and 10 s/cm² duration (~3s per point, total of ~120 s) [11].

Preparation of A-PRF and L-PRF:

Following the complete anesthesia, 2 ml of blood was collected from the retro-orbital sinus into the specified sterile tubes using a capillary pipette (plain glass-based vacuum tube for A-PRF and glass-coated plastic tube for L-PRF) [18]. Instant centrifugation was done at 1500 rpm for 14 minutes and at 2700 rpm for 12 minutes to prepare A-PRF and L-PRF, respectively. After centrifugation, the tube content was removed, and the PRF layer was separated from the top acellular plasma layer and the bottom red blood cell layer [14, [19]. Then, the PRF layer was compressed to form a membrane ready to be inserted into the defect [20]. Subsequently, the wound was closed with tension-free simple sutures to immobilize the membrane. The sutures were removed one-week post-surgery.

Clinical examinations:

Euthanasia was carried out 30 days after the last PBM therapy session. The presence of extraoral and intraoral fistulas, MD and BL wounds dimensions, and MD and BL dimensions of possible bone exposure areas were recorded. Two blinded observers graded the mucosal healing as follows: unsatisfactory (presence of exposed bone), satisfactory (mucosal coverage with distinguishable color and consistency from the healthy mucosa), and highly satisfactory (healthy mucosal coverage) (Fig. 1).

Radiographical evaluation:

Following mandibulectomies and additional tissues elimination, radiographic images were taken. The lesion sites on the left hemimandibles were marked with opaque pointers, and digital periapical radiographs were obtained with a MinRay (Soredex, Tuusula, Finland) operating at 60 kVp, 6 mA, and 0.12 s exposure time. Equal 20 × 20 pixels squares were cropped from the lesion sites' radiographic images, which were inputted to MATLAB software v7.11 (MathWorks, Cambridge, MA, USA) to detect the mean and standard deviation of all pixels' gray values. Finally, the bone density of each image was reported ranging from 0 to 255.

Histological examination:

Hemimandibles were fixed in 10% formalin solution for 72 hours and later decalcified with EDTA for 30 days. After dehydration, all samples were embedded in paraffin, sectioned sagittally at the experimental site (5 µm thick, four sections per sample), and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Two blinded pathologists performed the histological examinations. The average number of newly formed osteocytes and empty lacunae per 25 mm² was calculated in five different fields, utilizing a 10 × 10 mm eyepiece gride reticle (light microscopy, 400× magnification). Descriptive evaluations of the epithelial tissue integrity, vascularization, and inflammatory infiltration were done under 400× magnification in five different fields. The vascularization was presented by a four-point scale (0: absent, 1: slight, 2: moderate, and 3: marked), as well as inflammatory infiltration (0: absent, 1: 1 to 100 cells as slight, 2: 100 to 250 cells as moderate, and 3: more than 250 cells as severe). The epithelial tissue integrity was graded as unsatisfactory (no epithelial tissue formation), satisfactory (interrupted epithelial tissue formation), and highly satisfactory (complete epithelial tissue coverage).

Statistical analysis:

Data were expressed as absolute frequency, percentage, and mean ± standard deviation and were analyzed using STATA 14 (StataCorp LP., Lakeway, Texas, USA). The interobserver agreement was analyzed using the kappa coefficient (κ-values ˃ 0.75: excellent, κ-values ˂ 0.40: low, and 0.40 ˂ κ-values ˂ 0.75: moderate agreement). Pearson's chi-square test or Fisher's exact test (when the expected values in any contingency table cells were less than five) determined the association between qualitative variables. The quantitative variables were compared using the one-way ANOVA test, and multiple comparisons were analyzed using Tukey's post hoc test. The statistical significance level was set at 5%.

Overall, the animals tolerated the experimental period fairly. Four rats died before the tooth extraction due to excessive weight loss caused by the zoledronate administration. Other animals remained in good health, achieved proper hemostasis, and recovered well from anesthesia.

Clinical findings:

Pre-treatment examinations revealed no statistically significant difference in the mean MD and BL wounds dimensions and the mean MD and BL exposed bone areas dimensions among study groups (P ˃ 0.05). Therefore, the C group data was considered representative of pre-treatment data to be compared with the post-treatment results of each study group. Additionally, there was no statistically significant difference in the fistulas number among study groups (one intraoral and one extraoral fistula in each group, P ˃ 0.05).

Interobserver agreement in clinical examinations' assessment was excellent (κ = 0.93, P < 0.001). Post-treatment clinical examinations showed that the mean MD and BL bone exposure areas dimensions in A, L, A+P, and L+P were significantly lower than in the C (P ˂ 0.001). Also, the mean MD and BL wounds dimensions were significantly lower in all treatment groups than in the C (P ˂ 0.001). The intraoral fistula was healed in A, L, A+P, and L+P, and the extraoral fistula was healed in A, A+P, and L+P. The optimal mucosal healing outcome was observed in A+P and L+P. Six out of seven cases of these groups showed highly satisfactory mucosal healing. Satisfactory mucosal healing was the most frequent observation in the S group (n=4). All cases of the C group (n=7) showed unsatisfactory mucosal healing (Fig. 2).

Radiographical findings:

All treatment groups had higher mean bone density than the C. The mean bone densities of A (199.65 ± 9.8), A+P (221.3 ± 13.45), and L+P (222.32 ± 14.94) were significantly higher than the S (173.31 ± 9.75) (P ˂ 0.05). A+P and L+P were the only groups that showed significantly higher mean bone density in comparison to the P (180.61 ± 9.37) (P ˂ 0.05) (Fig. 3).

Histological findings:

For histological findings, the Interobserver agreement was excellent (κ = 0.88, P < 0.001). There were significant differences in vascularization and inflammatory infiltration among groups (P ˂ 0.001). All specimens (n=7) from P, A, L, A+P, L+P had slight vascularization. 5 cases showed moderate vascularization in the S, and 2 cases showed slight vascularization. The C group cases' vascularization was ranked as moderate (n=5) and marked (n=2) (Fig. 4A).

Severe inflammatory infiltration was seen in specimens from C (n=7), S (n=5), and P (n=2). Moderate inflammatory infiltration was the main observation in P (n=5), A (n=7), L (n=7), and A+P (n=5). Slight inflammatory infiltration was only detected in A+P (n=2) and L+P (n=5) (Fig. 4B).

A statistically significant difference in epithelial tissue integrity was found between the study groups (P = 0.002). The highly satisfactory epithelial integrity was observed only in A+P (n=2) and L+P (n=3). Unsatisfactory epithelial integrity was dominant in C (n=7), S (n=6), and P (n=5). There were fewer cases of unsatisfactory epithelial integrity in A (n=3), L (n=2), A+P (n=1), and L+P (n=1). Notably, satisfactory epithelial integrity was mostly reported in A (n=4), L (n=5), A+P (n=4), and L+P (n=3), which were treated by PRF (Fig. 4C).

Furthermore, study groups exhibited significant differences in the mean number of osteocytes and empty lacunae (P ˂ 0.001). The mean empty lacunae numbers were significantly lower in PRF-treated groups, including A (14.42 ± 4.23), L (11.57 ± 1.9), A+P (6.14 ± 4.3), and L+P (8.28 ± 5.61) than in S (24.28 ± 4.23) and C (31 ± 3.36). Additionally, the mean empty lacunae numbers in the A+P and L+P were significantly lower than in P (20.28 ± 7.67). The P group's mean empty lacunae number was significantly lower than the C group (31 ± 3.36) (P ˂ 0.05).

The only significant difference in the mean osteocytes number was observed in A+P and L+P, which presented a higher mean osteocytes number (25.14 ± 8.25 and 26.14 ± 7.22, respectively) than the C (13.42 ± 4.23) (P ˂ 0.05) (Fig. 5).

For improving the MRONJ healing process, we need to reduce the medications' inhibitory effects by accelerating bone and soft tissue regeneration with adjuvant therapies. There are various reports of adjuvant therapies; however, these treatments' efficacy in comparison or combination with one another has yet to be established [8, [9]. The success rate of such treatments depends on their required frequency, costs, complexity, and patient collaboration. Hence, we selected two available and cost-effective adjuvant therapies (PBM and PRF therapy) to investigate.

The necrotic bone's presence causes constant soft tissue irritation and thus interferes with proper healing [21]. Exposed bone and epithelialization absence result in persistent and recurrent infections postponing the healing [22]. Therefore, necrotic bone elimination is essential. According to Hayashida et al. [23], the first treatment choice should be surgical therapy, and prolonged conservative therapy may decrease the patient's quality of life and exacerbate the lesion. Accordingly, we applied surgical resection to all experimental groups as the primary treatment.

Based on our findings, surgical treatment (S group) resulted in lower mean wound dimensions and higher bone density than the C group. However, there were no substantial improvements in other clinical and histological parameters. Most specimens from the S group had severe inflammation, moderate vascularization, and unsatisfactory epithelial integrity. Consequently, surgical resection is required to provide the underlying healthy margins for tissue regeneration, but it cannot enhance the regeneration alone.

Adjuvant PBM therapy resulted in similar outcomes as the surgery. Although, PBM therapy resulted in lower mean empty lacunae than the C group. The inflammation and vascularization of most P group specimens were also reduced, which could be justified by the granulation tissue maturation. Since there was no obvious bone formation progression, we supposed that the fibrotic tissue formation replaced the granulation tissue.

Similar to our study, Vescovi et al. [24] suggested that PBM applications stimulate angiogenesis and soft tissue healing. Based on the systematic review by de Souza Tolentino et al. [25], from 246 cases who underwent laser therapy, 64.2% showed improved symptoms, and 39.8% were healed completely. Many studies have confirmed the positive PBM effects on tissue regeneration, including promoting cell proliferation, calcium deposition, and angiogenesis [13]. In this study, we could not detect PBM stimulation effects on bone regeneration which might be explained by the suppression effect of zoledronate on bone remodeling [26]. Likewise, Ervolino et al. [27] observed that PBM therapy could not alter the bone remodeling in extraction sites of rats treated by zoledronate.

Notably, PBM outcomes are highly dependent on various factors, such as laser wavelength, laser settings, and sessions' frequency and duration. The pre-treatment MRONJ stage also affects the PBM therapy's success rate.

The present study also investigated the PRF therapy effect on MRONJ healing. Based on our findings, in the cases treated with PRF (A and L groups), the mean wound and bone exposure area dimensions were considerably lower than the C group. All extraoral and intraoral fistulas were healed except for one case. Most cases showed satisfactory and highly satisfactory mucosal healing. Enhanced bone remodeling was detected in these groups, which was expected due to inflammation reduction, vascularization reduction, and granulation tissue maturation. The epithelial integrity was also better than the previous groups.

PRFs affect MRONJ remission by mechanical and inflammatory protections and enduring bio-activator properties [28]. Their fibrin architecture provides a scaffold that stores cells such as platelets and prevents the direct toxicity of bone-released bisphosphonates on the soft tissue by acting as a barrier between bone and oral mucosa [29, [30]. Trapped platelets in these fibrins are responsible for releasing growth factors, upregulating osteoprotegerin and alkaline phosphatase, and osteoblasts' proliferation [31, [32].

Unlike PBM therapy, PRFs' regenerative properties persist for a significant time throughout the healing process (usually 7 to 28 days) and do not need repetition [14]. This might explain the better outcomes observed in a one-month follow-up after PRF treatment rather than PBM.

In many case reports and a few clinical trials on MRONJ, the PRFs' application has shown promising results [29, [33, [34]. Based on Kim et al.'s study [35], 26 out of 34 patients showed complete MRONJ resolution after L-PRF treatment. Giudice et al. [36] investigated the PRF's efficacy after surgery compared to surgery alone at three different time points. Their results exhibited significant differences in mucosal integrity, infection absence, and pain resolution between treatment groups in favor of PRF at the one-month follow-up.

PRFs' preparation is an economical and straightforward process with no technical difficulties. They are chemical-free products from patients' blood that can be easily handled. Considering the mentioned advantages, PRF therapy is an appropriate adjuvant treatment for MRONJ.

We also investigated the efficacy of simultaneous PRF and PBM therapies (A+P and L+P groups). These were the only groups that showed a higher statistically significant number of osteocytes (P ˂ 0.05). Moreover, we observed substantially higher mean bone density and fewer empty lacunae than C, S, and P groups. These groups showed complete healing of fistulas and 6 out of 7 cases of highly satisfactory mucosal healing. They were the only groups showing slight inflammation and highly satisfactory epithelial integrity.

These results indicate the synergic effect of PBM and PRF co-application. The PBM bio-stimulatory effects might activate PRFs' platelets, leading to enhanced growth factors releasing and tissue remodeling.

Merigo et al. [37] treated 21 MRONJ patients using platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and 808 nm laser after removing necrotic tissues by piezosurgery and Er:YAG laser. 92.85% of patients reached complete healing at six-months follow-up. Hence, they suggested consecutive different high-technology strategies during the MRONJ treatment. Using different methods to eliminate the necrotic tissues and PRP instead of PRF hinders comparing the results between our study and theirs. However, they also supported the application of more than one adjuvant therapy.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that despite applying two different protocols to prepare PRFs (A-PRF and L-PRF), we detected no significant differences between them (P ˃ 0.05).

Within the treatment selections investigated in this study, we concluded that the combination of PBM and PRF placement might be the most practical choice of MRONJ treatment. These adjuvant therapies improved clinical, histological, and radiological parameters examined in this study. PRF therapy alone revealed better outcomes than PBM alone, and we observed no substantial differences between A-PRF and L-PRF.

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This work has been financially supported by Hamadan University of Medical Sciences (Grant number: 9906043615).

Authors’ contributions

MRJ: conception and design of the study; interpretation of data; manuscript revision; personal accountability. SS: conception and design of the study; data acquisition and analysis; interpretation of data; manuscript draft and revision; personal accountability. MB: conception and design of the study; data acquisition and analysis; manuscript revision; personal accountability. AS: design of the study; interpretation of data; manuscript draft and revision; personal accountability. SJ: design of the study; interpretation of data; manuscript revision; personal accountability. SK: design of the study; interpretation of data; manuscript revision; personal accountability. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Complementarity of Surgical Therapy, Photobiomodulation, A-PRF and L- PRF for Management of Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (MRONJ); an Animal Study

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