Skinner Forceps, 23 cm – Tungsten Carbide, 1×2 Teeth

23 cm gives this forceps its role. Breast and neck procedures work in pockets and planes well below the incision, and coagulation in particular happens at the far end of those spaces — so the instrument holding the tissue has to reach there while the surgeon’s hand stays outside. Shorter forceps put the hand in the pocket, which blocks both the light and the diathermy pencil coming in alongside.

The nylon-coated version exists for the electrosurgical half of that work. Bare steel in a field where current is flowing is a conductor, able to carry it wherever the jaws are touching; a non-conductive coating keeps the forceps out of the circuit entirely. Tungsten carbide serrations with 1×2 teeth cover the grip — serrations for needles and sutures, teeth interlocking through tissue — and hold both through the heat cycling that coagulation work puts an instrument through.

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