1Department of Periontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences, Lucknow.
2Sardar Patel Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences, Lucknow.
3C.S.I.R. Dispensary, Niralanagar, Lucknow.
4Depertment of Prosthodontics, Sardar Patel Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), is basically 100% oxygen inhalation, at a pressure greater than that of sea level, it being 2.4 absolute atmospheres (i.e. ATA; where 1 ATA = 760 mmHg). When oxygen is used as a drug, the doze is controlled by technologically operated oxygen chamber, which sets the dosage at 100% oxygen and controls its absorption by pressure. Molecular oxygen has a central role in repair, collagen synthesis, matrix formation, angiogenesis, epithelialization and bacterial killing.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, absolute atmospheres, Hyperbaric chambers, decompression sickness
