PIEZOSURGERY IN ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY

Over the last few decades, there has been rapid development in various surgical techniques, evolving a world of painless dentistry. Traditionally, osseous surgery was performed using hand instruments and various rotary instruments with different burs, which required external copious irrigation because of the production of heat using these instruments. Piezosurgery is a recently advanced surgical technique for sectioning the hard tissues sparing the adjacent soft tissues such as brain, neurovascular structures, muscles and mucosa. This is a new technique of osteotomy and osteoplasty, which requires the use of micro vibrations of ultrasonic (US) frequency scalpels.