[CHRONIC OSTHEOMYELITIS OF THE FACIAL MIDDLE ZONE WITH SPREADING ON THE BONES OF CRANIAL BASE ON BACKGROUND OF NARCOTIC DEPENDENCE].

Own experience of treatment of a narcotic dependence patients, suffering osteomyelitis of jaws, was analyzed. In those patients, who have had exposed themselves towards toxic impact of narcotic substances (even after arrest of the consumption) for a long period of time, the inflammation spreading on the bones of facial middle zone and the skull base with occurrence of a life3threatening purulent3septic, including intracerebral, complications (cerebral аbscess, meningitis, sepsis) were observed. Additional division of cerebral abscess on open and closed forms for optimization of diagnosis of іntracranial complications was proposed.