A drill bit and method for normalizing bone is provided. The drill bit has anon-round drill bitcore that is adapted to cut hard bone and to not cut soft bone. The drill bithas a cutting edgewhich may be positioned within a compression zone of the non-round drill bitcore. Therotational speed of the drill bit and the profile of the drill bit core aretuned so that hard bonerecovers into a cutting zone defined by the cutting edge while soft boneremains outside of thecutting zone. The insertion torque of the drill bit can be measured todetermine when thenormalization is adequate.
