ABSTRACT
The most of these studies concentrate especially on the long bones from bovine or porcine animals. These bones have characteristics that best resemble to human specimens (Aerssens et al. 1998, Yuehuei et al. 2000). There are many ways to measure the temperature during the drilling process of the bone. The most common instruments to measure the temperature are the thermographic camera and the thermocouples. The thermographic camera is a very sensitive and effective method for measure superficial temperature changes (Bedrettin et al. 2009). Therefore, in this work, the influence of the drill speed and feed-rate on evolution of the temperature in drilling bone process, was studied using the thermographic camera. The main goal was making a qualitative analysis of the obtained results in animal models, for further optimization of the cutting conditions that will allow achieve the lower temperatures and consequently improve this type of surgical procedures.
