An easy-to-assemble reamer for medical applications includes a shaft
portion, a disposable tapered hollow reamer sleeve and a modular pilot.
The shaft portion has a proximal end for attachment to a drill, a central
cone element with one or more slots and a distal threaded end. The
tapered hollow reamer sleeve has integrally attached one or more torque
transmitting tabs at the larger end and a collet taper at the smaller end
and slides over the shaft distal end engaging tabs with the slots. The
modular pilot has a threaded central aperture engaging shaft thread and a
collet taper mating with the collet taper of the reamer sleeve
substantially coinciding their centerlines. The disposable hollow cutter
sleeve has a plurality of cutting elements and apertures that discharge
bone and bone cement debris into the space between the reamer and the
shaft. With this construction, the reamer transmits reliable, wobble
free, reaming torque in a highly efficient manner.