PIEZOSURGERY

Dental surgical techniques have been developed rapidly over the last two decades. In all these, one new surgical technique based on the novel application of the principle of piezoelectric ultrasonic vibration is introduced with wide range of applications in dentistry and periodontics. In the last decade, a novel family of power ultrasonic devices has been successfully created to dissect hard tissue in various maxillofacial operations. This revolutionary surgical technique, known as piezosurgery was invented by Professor Vercellotti in 1988 to overcome the limits of traditional instrumentation in oral bone surgery by modifying and improving conventional ultrasound techonology, meticulous and soft tissue sparing system for bone cutting, based on ultrasonic microvibrations. Device consists of a novel piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer powered by an ultrasonic generator capable of driving a range of resonant cutting inserts to overcome limits of traditional instruments and to reach increasingly higher levels of precision, safety and rapidity in recovery after bone surgeries in all anatomical situations.