Comparing the Bone Healing After Cold Ablation Robot-Guided Er:YAG Laser Osteotomy and Piezoelectric Osteotomy-A Pilot Study in a Minipig Mandible.

Journal: Lasers in surgery and medicine
PMID: 32529785

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To take major advantage of erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (Er:YAG) lasers in osteotomy-like freedom of cutting geometries and high accuracy-the integration and miniaturization of the robot, laser, and navigation technology was tried and applied to minipigs. The investigators hypothesized laser osteotomy would render acceptable bone healing based on the intraoperative findings and postoperative cut surface analysis.

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  • Kyung-Won Baek
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Michel Dard
    Oral, Diagnostic and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York.
  • Hans-Florian Zeilhofer
    Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Philippe C Cattin
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Allschwil, Switzerland.
  • Philipp Juergens
    Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital of Basel, Spitalstrasse 21, Basel, 4031, Switzerland.

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