INTRODUCTION Piezosurgery, a method of bone cutting utilizing ultrasound vibrations, widely used in oral and maxillofacial surgery, is being used in a growing number of new clinical applications. Its main advantages are preservation of soft tissues, precise bone cutting, and the possibility of use in narrow spaces. Over the past 5 years, several authors have presented their experience with the ...

Harold Frederick Schuknecht, MD, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School and Chief Emeritus of the Department of Otolaryngology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, who has died, at the age of 79, on October 19, 1996, was a world renowned clinical otologist, otopathologist, teacher and scholar. Harold Schuknecht was born in South Dakota i...

INTRODUCTION There is a variety of medical and non-medical therapies in practice, which were not evaluated regarding its effectiveness by any systematic evidence oriented investigation. A number of therapies of medical and non-medical type try to treat the different types of tinnitus. The evidence in the scientific literature also had to be cleared in the field of diagnosis and classification a...