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Arthur W Perry, Michael Sosin Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ; Division of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Surgery, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medi...

A substantial part of the maxillofacial surgery practice deals with maxillofacial bone healing. In the past decades, low-intensity ultrasound treatment has been shown to reduce the healing time of fresh fractures of the extremities up to 38%, and to heal delayed and non-unions up to 90% and 83%, respectively. Based on the assumption that the process of bone healing in the bones of the extremiti...