Piezo-electric surgery use for the management of patients with onj drug-induced: our experience

Background Piezo-electric surgery is a procedure used recently in Oral-Maxillo-Facial Surgery [1]. The basic mechanisms are ultrasounds, that working in a frequency range between 25 and 30 Khz, determining very low oscillations on the tip of the handpiece, with effectiveness in cutting hard tissue but absolutely atraumatic on the soft tissue [2], with bio-stimulating effects. Piezo-electric cut takes place thanks to a modulate ultrasonic micro-vibration of 60-200 micro-meters of wideness, that it is able to cut all the mineralized tissues with the utmost respect to the soft tissue, impossible to damage even in an accidental contact. The bio-stimulation induces neo-angiogenesis, proliferation of epithelial tissue, increase of osteoblastic activity. In our Department of Maxillo-Facial Surgery a clinical study is ongoing whose aim is to demonstrate Piezo-Surgery validity as an adjuvant treatment for patient management in stage I (a,b), II (a,b) and stage IIIa (following the AAOMFS classification).