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OK, so I looked up osteomyelitis, and according to wikipedia, "Acute osteomyelitis almost invariably occurs in children. When adults are affected, it may be because of compromised host resistance due to debilitation, intravenous drug abuse, infectious root-canaled teeth, or other disease or drugs (e.g., immunosuppressive therapy)." It is an "infection and inflammation of the bone or bone marrow.". I find it interesting that they reference "infectious root-canaled teeth" - my mother had nothing but problems with a root-canaled tooth until they pulled it. It is one of those things that sounds crazy until it is true. Hopefully you have an infection that can be cured with antibiotics and you won't be on this board for a long time!
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