The doctor had me in the chair for five hours and was pounding a hammer and chisel in my mouth claiming he needed to do this to put bone beneath my sinus. Is this kosher? When one needs implants ...

At Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, surgeons who needed to chisel and cut bones were last week using for their operations a pneumatic hammer adapted by a young surgeon who, despite his ...

The relentless clank-clank of hand chisels knocking away ancient sandstone can ring in your ears long after you’ve set down the hammer and hiked back to camp. But the closer the bones get to the ...

Typically consisting of a long, narrow, sharpened edge attached to a handle, chisels are distinguished from knives and axes in that they're driven by a sharp blow from a hammer or mallet.

The surgeon needed to use a mallet. It broke. “He said my bone was so strong and so dense that he broke his mallet,” Overshown said. “I got some strong, healthy bones. For people that say ...