Plastic Surgery Instruments

Types of plastic surgery instruments

Cutting instruments

• Plastic Surgery Scissors — facelift, nasal, micro, PAR and stitch scissors; the place for soft-tissue cutting and undermining.
• Nasal Knives & Scalpel Handles — septum, nasal and cartilage knives and #3, #4, #7 and round handles; choose it for incisions and intranasal cutting.
• Skin Graft Knives — manual dermatomes, graft blades and a mesher; only for split-thickness skin graft harvest.

Grasping and clamping instruments

• Plastic Surgery Thumb Forceps — non-locking thumb forceps: Adson, Brown, Gillies, micro and bayonet; for holding skin, flaps and cartilage.
• Ring Forceps & Clamps — ratcheted ring-handled forceps: hemostats, Allis and Babcock, towel clamps, sponge forceps; when the jaws must stay locked.
• Nasal Forceps — septum, cutting, cup, polyp and dressing forceps for work inside the nose.

Retracting and exposing instruments

• Plastic Surgery Retractors & Skin Hooks — skin and nasal hooks, Aufricht and weighted nasal retractors, lighted breast retractors and rakes.
• Periosteal Elevators & Surgical Dissectors — nasal, septum, zygoma and cleft elevators and breast dissectors; for lifting periosteum, perichondrium and tissue planes.
• Endoscopic Brow Lift Instruments — long Daniel and Ramirez elevators and dissectors for work through small scalp incisions.

Suturing instruments

• Plastic Surgery Needle Holders — delicate, scissor-combination, micro and Tebbetts needle holders for fine sutures.

Bone and cartilage instruments

• Osteotomes — double-beveled bone cutters for nasal and maxillofacial osteotomies.
• Surgical Chisels and Surgical Gouges — single-face cutting and hollow-blade bone instruments for nasal and septal bone.
• Nasal Rasps & Saws and Bone Files — for smoothing bone after resection and for saw osteotomies.
• Rongeurs — cup-jaw forceps that bite away bone.
• Surgical Mallets & Cartilage Instruments — mallets that drive osteotomes and chisels, and crushers, morselizers and boards for cartilage grafts.

Measuring and marking instruments

• Plastic Surgery Measuring & Marking Instruments — calipers, areola and facelift markers and nasal measuring tools for planning the incision.

How to choose plastic surgery tools

• Start from the task, then the category above: cut, grasp, clamp, retract, suture, shape bone or cartilage, or mark.
• Then the procedure. Rhinoplasty instruments run through nasal forceps, osteotomes, rasps, chisels, nasal knives and nasal retractors; breast surgery through breast dissectors and lighted retractors; facelift through facelift scissors, flap retractors and endoscopic brow lift instruments.
• Then the pattern and size on the category page, where each type explains its choice factors.

Every product is also listed by procedure under Instruments by Procedure.

What are plastic surgical instruments used for?

Rhinoplasty and septoplasty, facelift, brow lift and blepharoplasty, breast augmentation, reduction and reconstruction, abdominoplasty and body contouring, skin grafting, cleft palate repair, hand surgery and microsurgery.

How BusinessMed plastic surgery instruments are made

German stainless steel with a satin, non-reflective finish; tungsten carbide, diamond-dust, titanium and fiber optic versions are named on each product page. Reusable and autoclavable, with a 5-year warranty.