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Volume 12 , Issue 3
May/June 1997
Pages 342-353

Temperature Rise During Drilling Through Bone

Abouzgia/James

PMID: 9197099

Temperature was measured during drilling in bovine cortical bone specimens. A surgical drill fitted with a custom-designed speedometer and mounted on a drill press was used to drill holes at one speed, 49,000 rpm, and at forces in the range of 1.5 to 9.0 N. The resulting temperatures were recorded by thermocouples placed at various locations. The distribution of maximum local temperature rise (AT) was best fitted by the function AT = aR-b, where R is the distance from the center of the drilled hole and a and b are constants that were found by regr ession analysis. It was also found that the temperature increased with force, up to about 4.0 N, and then decreased at forces greater than that because of decreased drilling time. A separate series of tests revealed that temperatures were higher in the longitudinal direction than in the circumferential direction; this difference was attibuted to the anisotropic thermal properties of bone.

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