USING OF DENTAL ULTRASONIC SCALER AS COST EFFECTIVE ULTRASONIC SCALPEL IN NEUROSURGERY

P.Pallavan; Prof. Y.P.Jacob Grand; Prof. M.M. Sankar; S.Rajkumar; P.Mannar Mannan; Dr.Dhiraj Patil; Dr. R. Saravana Santhosh Kumar

Volume : IX, Issue : III, March - 2019

USING OF DENTAL ULTRASONIC SCALER AS COST EFFECTIVE ULTRASONIC SCALPEL IN NEUROSURGERY

P. Pallavan, Prof. Y. P. Jacob Grand, Prof. M. M. Sankar, S. Rajkumar, P. Mannar Mannan, Dr. Dhiraj Patil, Dr. R. Saravana Santhosh Kumar

Abstract :

For ain and spine tumour excision CUSA(cavitron ultrasonic surgical aspirator) knife is commonly used in neurosurgery. Neurosurgeons working in peripheral hospitals particularly developing country like india could not afford commercially available CUSA Knife because of the high cost or non availability or poor quality.Dental ultrasonic scaler working in same principle is a viable alternative to sophisticated CUSA knife. Availability,low cost,maintainance,service, durability consider the dental ultrasonic scaler as the cost effective equipment in neurosurgerical tumour excision .