| Summary: | This video describes instrumentation and surgical techniques of an upcoming alternative use of ultrasonic energy to facilitate the bony osteotomy in an endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy. It discusses the principles of piezoelectric-assisted DCR, indications for surgery, and overview of major surgical steps. It covers all the steps involved in an ultrasonic endoscopic DCR using three different clinical scenarios. The use of two different ultrasonic platforms; SynthesR and SonopetR is discussed with surgical examples of using each of them. The video provides assistance to all lacrimal surgeons, more so the beginners and serves as a learning curve for the surgery. This video serves as a useful link to the chapters with similar titles in the 2nd edition of the textbook 'Principles and Practice of Lacrimal Surgery' and also 'Atlas of Lacrimal Drainage Disorders', both edited and authored respectively by the author of this video, Dr Mohammad Javed Ali and published by Springer. The reader gets great details and bibliography, and images from these sources in addition to the surgical steps illustrated in the video for complete knowledge.
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