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Design and Fabrication of a High Power Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Surgery Unit for Dental Implantation
Na Ri Kim, Dae Woo Jeon, Jin Ho Kim, Sun Woog Kim, Jong Hee Hwang, Jeong Bae Lee, Sung Jae Choi, Dae Jin Im, Young Jin Lee
J Electr Electron Mater 2017;30(10):656-664.   Published online October 1, 2017
This paper presents the design and fabrication of a high power piezoelectric ultrasonic surgery unit for multi-purpose dental implantation. A conventional piezoelectric ultrasonic surgery units consists of a transducer and a tip. However, the drawback of this simple structure is that the output performance of the transducer considerably changes with the change of the tips. An ultrasonic surgery unit that has an additional booster between the transducer and the tip can solve this problem to some extent; for this, an optimal structural design for the transducer is required. We used the Bolted Langevin Transducer (BLT) as the basic transducer; it consists of piezoelectric ceramics and a metal body. It`s structure was optimized using mathematical methods to determine the length and radius of the tail and head masses. Additionally, the booster was also subjected to the same methods. Using these mathematical methods, optimal results in terms of the resonance frequency (24.96 kHz), displacement (14.27 ㎛), and pressure (2.8 MPa), could be obtained. The validity of this proposed surgery unit was confirmed experimentally, exhibiting a cutting force of around 7% higher than that of a conventional surgery unit.
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