British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 265-269 , June 2008

Piezoelectric surgery: Twenty years of use

  • Mauro Labanca

      Affiliations

    • Division of Human Anatomy, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Brescia, Italy
    • Department of Dentistry, Vita Salute University S. Raffaele Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Flavio Azzola

      Affiliations

    • Division of Human Anatomy, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Brescia, Italy
    • ,
  • Raffaele Vinci

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dentistry, Vita Salute University S. Raffaele Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Luigi F. Rodella

      Affiliations

    • Division of Human Anatomy, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Brescia, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, Viale Europa 11, 25124 Brescia, Italy. Tel.: +39 0303717485; fax: +39 0303717486.

,Accepted 27 December 2007.

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PII: S0266-4356(08)00003-X

doi: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2007.12.007

British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 265-269 , June 2008

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