The fragility of ossseos structures is significantly limited to the area which is radiated. There is little evidence that radiation impacts bone health or structure remote from the area being treated. I did Petey's search above just out of curiosity, and personally did not find its results helpful. There are tons of articles which have aspects of that question in them, but sifting through them did not yeild me an answer related to remote involvement, which was essentially the question.

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