Piezosurgery: A Boon To Dentistry

Piezoelectric bone surgery, otherwise, known as Piezosurgery is a new technique that was introduced by Professor Vercellotti in the year 1988 to overcome the limitations of the conventional scalpel blade surgical procedures in oral bone surgery by modifying and improving the conventional ultrasound technology. It is a promising, meticulous and soft tissue sparing technique for bone cutting based on low frequency ultrasonic micro-vibrations. The absence of macro-vibrations makes the instrument more manageable and allows greater intra operative control with a significant increase in the cutting safety in the more difficult anatomical cutting zones. The present review outweighs Piezosurgery over the conventional oral surgical procedures and emphasizes on its mechanism of action, instruments, biologic effects, advantages and limitations and its varied applications in the field of oral surgery and dentistry per se.