Surgical Mallets & Cartilage Instruments
BusinessMed® Surgical Mallets & Cartilage Instruments group the two jobs that sit side by side in rhinoplasty: mallets that strike osteotomes, chisels and gouges, and the instruments that prepare cartilage grafts — crushers and morselizers, cartilage forceps, a cutting board, a diced-cartilage trocar, cartilage knives and scissors, and a cartilage abrader for otoplasty.
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Cottle Bone and Cartilage Crusher (Morselizer)
$49.00
Dingman Cartilage Abrader (Otoabrader), Curved Left or Right – 15 cm
$29.99
Gorney Septal Morselizer, Tungsten Carbide, Double Action (Straight or Angled)
$109.00
Gunter Lower Lateral Morselizer, Semi-Sharp, Tungsten Carbide, 18 cm
$94.00
Novotex Fiber Plastic Mallet, 26 cm (35, 45 or 50 mm Head)
Price range: $35.00 through $45.00
Types of mallets and cartilage instruments
Surgical mallets
A surgical mallet is a hand-held instrument with a metal shaft and a solid head that strikes chisels, osteotomes and gouges. Weights run from the light Toffee mallet and Doyen bone mallet to the Bergmann orthopedic mallet for bone surgery; the Novotex mallet has a fiber plastic head and the ultra fine mallet a Tufnol handle.
Cartilage crushers and morselizers
Crushers and morselizers soften or break down cartilage grafts. Plate types — the Jost (Gubisch) crusher, the Cottle crusher and the Sheen crusher with its pressure screw — flatten grafts on a bed; forceps types — the Rubin and Gorney septal morselizers, the Gunter lower lateral morselizer and the Tschoepe crusher — work on the cartilage in the jaws.
Graft preparation
The cartilage cutting board is the PTFE surface for slicing harvested cartilage; the free diced cartilage trocar delivers diced cartilage along the nasal dorsum through a fine tube; Sheen cartilage forceps hold the graft.
Cartilage knives, scissors and abrader
Masing and Maltz cartilage knives, the Fomon lower lateral and McIndoe rhinoplasty scissors, and the Dingman cartilage abrader, which abrades the anterior auricular cartilage in otoplasty.
How to choose a surgical mallet or crusher
- Mallet weight. Light mallets suit fine nasal osteotomes and chisels; the heavy Bergmann is a bone-surgery mallet.
- Head material. Solid steel heads, or a fiber plastic head on the Novotex.
- Crusher type. A plate crusher flattens a whole graft on its bed; a forceps-type morselizer works the cartilage held in its jaws.
What are mallets and cartilage instruments used for?
Driving osteotomes, chisels and gouges in rhinoplasty and bone surgery; preparing septal and rib cartilage grafts by crushing, morselizing, slicing and dicing; dorsal augmentation with free diced cartilage; and otoplasty.
How BusinessMed mallets and cartilage instruments are made
German stainless steel with a satin, non-reflective finish; non-steel parts are named on each page (fiber plastic mallet head, Tufnol handle, PTFE cutting board). Reusable and autoclavable, with a 5-year warranty.