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• powerful and lightweight;
• quick and precise cutting action; and
• minimal fatigue.
"You have to have a reliable tool and a tool
that's going to work," says Frederic Nicola,
MD, the director of the Knee and Hip Institute
at DISC Sports and Spine Center in Marina
del Rey, Calif. "If it stops during the middle of
a case and you don't have a backup or a
replacement, then you can't finish the case."
Dr. Nicola appreciates simple 1-handed operation that lets you control functions with a finger. With a handheld shaver, he says, with his
finger he can control the direction of the
shaver (forward, backward and reciprocating)
and the amount of suction.
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