| Literature DB >> 27630969 |
Sunil Kumar Karumuri1, Trisha Rastogi2, Kartheeki Beeraka3, Mohan Raju Penumatcha4, Sanjeeva Rao Olepu5.
Abstract
An ultrasound (US) gives a visible image of the organs that are present inside the body. In medicine it serves for diagnosing and also its therapeutic benefits are well established for bone healing, osteointegration and soft tissue healing. In dentistry it is widely used for diagnostic purposes. When it was discovered it was introduced for therapeutic purposes, but due to lack of clinical studies its use as therapy was remittent in dentistry. The aim of the present paper was to establish the efficiency of therapeutic US in maxillofacial region for alleviating the pain and to see the other applications. Our search included the English terms like ultrasonography, applications, dentistry in Google search engine, PubMed and Medline from 1980 to 2015. We found very few articles showing the effects of therapeutic Ultrasound (US) in treatment of pain and healing in dentistry. We concluded that clinical benefits of in vivo studies were very little and demands further rigorous research to strive for the therapeutic success of US.Entities:
Keywords: Applications; Physical therapy; Ultrasonography
Year: 2016 PMID： 27630969 PMCID： PMC5020309 DOI： 10.7860/JCDR/2016/18584.8190
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Diagn Res ISSN： 0973-709X