Tebbetts Spatulated Breast Dissector, 33 cm

Textured implants raise the standard a pocket has to meet. A smooth implant will settle into a pocket that is slightly uneven; a textured surface grips the tissue it touches and holds whatever shape the pocket gives it, so any ridge or under-released area left by the dissection stays visible in the result. The spatulated edge addresses that by releasing tissue along a broad flat front rather than in narrow channels, producing a pocket with uniform margins.

Working through all three approaches — axillary, inframammary and periareolar — from one instrument matters because each meets the pocket from a different direction, and a surgeon rarely uses only one. The same 33 cm shaft handles pectoralis elevation, the initial pocket dissection and the final release, so the instrument stays in hand across the stages of the operation instead of being exchanged at each one.

Specifications