Evolving Technologies for Tissue Cutting

Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am. 2019 Nov;31(4):549-559. doi: 10.1016/j.coms.2019.07.009. Epub 2019 Aug 31.

¹ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7500 Cambridge Street, Suite 6100, Houston, TX 77054, USA. Electronic address: jonathon.jundt@uth.tmc.edu.
² Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7500 Cambridge Street, Suite 6100, Houston, TX 77054, USA; Ben Taub Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
³ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7500 Cambridge Street, Suite 6100, Houston, TX 77054, USA; Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴ Maxillofacial/Head and Neck Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, East Grinstead RH19 3DZ, UK.
⁵ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7500 Cambridge Street, Suite 6100, Houston, TX 77054, USA.

Abstract

This article reviews evolving and lesser known technologies for tissue cutting and their application in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Keywords: Plasma scalpels; Rapid evaporative ionization mass spectroscopy (REIMS); Ultrasonic surgery; Waterjet surgery.

Published by Elsevier Inc.