Jaakko Piitulainen
M.D., PhD
Fibre-reinforced; composite; bioactive glass; implant; cranioplasty; tonsillectomy, tonsillotomy; sleep apnea
Jaakko Piitulainen, M.D., PhD, Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, and Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Turku University Hospital, Hospital Disctrict of Southwest Finland.
I have specialized in otorhinolaryngology (2011 – 2017) at Turku University Hospital, Seinäjoki Central Hospital and Kanta-Häme Central Hospital. I finished my PhD in 2015 at Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research, University of Turku Graduate School.
Clinical Instructor of Otorhinolaryngology, mentor
- Incidence of adult tonsillectomy for hypertrophic indications in Southwest Finland (2025)
- Acta Oto-Laryngologica
- Long-term outcomes of extracapsular tonsillectomy in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea in adults (2024)
- Acta Oto-Laryngologica
- Comparison of three common tonsil surgery techniques: cold steel with hot hemostasis, monopolar and bipolar diathermy (2023)
- European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
- Tonsillotomy for Periodic Fever Syndrome: A Randomized and Controlled Trial (2023)
- Laryngoscope
- Intracapsular tonsillectomy in the treatment of recurrent and chronic tonsillitis in adults: a protocol of a prospective, single-blinded, randomised study with a 5-year follow-up (the FINITE trial) (2022)
- BMJ Open
- Nielurisaleikkaus elämänlaatua parantamaan (2022)
- Lääkärilehti
- Patient injuries from tonsil and adenoid surgery in Finland (2022)
- Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology
- Treatment of sleep apnoea with tonsillectomy: a retrospective analysis using long-term follow-up data (2022)
- European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
- Vestibulaarineuriitti: tasapainoelimen äkillinen toimintahäiriö (2022)
- Duodecim
- Biomaterial and implant induced ossification: in vitro and in vivo findings (2020)
- Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
- Tutkijan tukipalvelut tehokkaaseen käyttöön (2020)
- Lääkärilehti
- A large calvarial bone defect in a child: osteointegration of an implant (2019)
- World Neurosurgery
- Predictors of primary autograft cranioplasty survival and resorption after craniectomy (2019)
- Journal of Neurosurgery
- Cranioplasty After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Effects of Trauma and Patient Recovery on Cranioplasty Outcome (2018)
- Frontiers in Neurology
- Load-bearing capacity and fracture behavior of glass fiber-reinforced composite cranioplasty implants (2017)
- Journal of Applied Biomaterials and Functional Materials
- A glass fiber-reinforced composite - bioactive glass cranioplasty implant: A case study of an early development stage implant removed due to a late infection (2016)
- Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
- Outcomes of Cranioplasty with Synthetic Materials and Autologous Bone Grafts (2015)
- World Neurosurgery
- Paediatric cranial defect reconstruction using bioactive fibre-reinforced composite implant: early outcomes (2015)
- Acta Neurochirurgica
- Reconstruction of cranial bone defects with fiber-reinforced composite–bioactive glass implants (2015) Piitulainen Jaakko
- Craniofacial bone reconstruction with bioactive fiber-reinforced composite implant (2014)
- Head and Neck
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