title: Exodontia: tips and techniques for better outcomes.
abstract: This article reviews and highlights exodontia tips as well as new techniques to make simple and complex exodontia more predictable and efficient with improved patient outcomes. A discussion of a powered periotome that has been developed to aid in the atraumatic extraction of teeth and another new device, the piezosurgery, increasingly used for outpatient oral surgery procedures are included. Physics forceps, a new type of exodontia forceps, is also discussed in this article.
authors: Department of Dentistry/Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, 121 DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA. hdymdds@yahoo.com
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mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods; D010513:Periodontal Ligament / Q000601:surgery; D059745:Piezosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome