Bone cutter
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Types of medical bone cutters include:
[edit] Unpowered
Unpowered bone cutting implements include the variety of hacksaw and Sabre saw. In many applications, the saw is used in specialised jigs to provide accurate, measurable cuts, eg Knee Surgery.
[edit] Reciprocating
Usually a powered rotary oscillation is applied to a speciallised cutting implement to provide smooth controllable cuts into bone, for applications, from skull cutting to rib cutting.
[edit] Sonic, or Sound Cutting
Still experimental, but its primary focus is to use high frequency, high amplitude sound to remove material (in this case bone), providing the ability to cut.
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