What is it about?
Heat generation in surgical bone drilling causes deaths of bone cells hence negatively impacting the functionality and sustainability of implants. In this work, we have conclusively analysed heat and force generation in bone for different bone material and drilling conditions.
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Why is it important?
Our findings showed that bone temperature goes beyond the threshold limit. We assumed that surgeons must be empowered with this critical information in-situ bone drilling to achieve better surgical outcome.
Perspectives
Being teamed up with medical surgeons, medical scientists, mechanical engineers, this is our first step in exploring further surgical bone drilling, better prediction of drilling behavior and smart drilling technology that will reduce temperature, enable temperature, force, depth detection and monitoring, and all of which will potential empower surgeons to achieve improved surgical planning and outcome.
Mohammad Uddin
University of South Australia
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This page is a summary of: Temperature and force generation in surgical bone drilling, January 2021, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0037543.
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