
The first bone canal drilling was performed in 1845 by Dieffenbach in Berlin and the next in 1929 by Beck in the United States. Both authors carried it out to treat pseudarthrosis. The first instance of bone drilling in chondropathy (osteochondrosis dissecans) was published - as far as we know - in Bone and Joint Surgery and referred to a report of Smillie on the occasion of a South West Orthopaedic Club Meeting in November 1954 at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital, Exeter (Smillie 1955).
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