Talk:Osteotome

What exactly is an osteotome?
Hallo everybody, I found you among the contributors to the article on the osteotome on the English Wikipedia. The article is a stub and I am not sure if the definitions in the first lines are correct. The osteotome (German: Osteotom) that I know was invented by the German physician Bernhard Heine in 1830 and was used for opening the skull. In my Commons gallery you can see the pictures that I uploaded, I have some more on my computer. The usage of the instrument can be seen in the Bernhard Heine article. My question: Do you know anything about the other meanings and types of this instrument? Hans555 17:50, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * clearly, the instrument referred to as an osteotome in dental surgery differsw drastically from that called an osteotome by orthopaedic surgeons. in ortho. surgery, an osteotme differs from a chisel only in the fact that that the edge is two sided. otherwise, it's a chisel, pure and simple.Toyokuni3 (talk) 18:39, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * plug 'osteotome' into the yahoo search engine (which goes primarily to commercial sites) and see what you get.Toyokuni3 (talk) 18:41, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've taken a shot at distinguishing the chisel-like instrument from the chainsaw-like instrument. --j⚛e deckertalk 20:09, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

More information on the web
I found a lot of information on the osteotome used in dentistry on the web. I am trying to get into contact with one of the authors for photographs and copyright.I also removed the stub-tag and inserted photos of the historical osteotome invented by Bernhard Heine.Hans555 11:11, 7 August 2007 (UTC)