Hargis Mandibular Body Retractor, 17 cm – 13 mm

The mandible changes shape along its length, and retractors for it are sized accordingly. The body is the long horizontal section between the chin and the angle — broad, relatively straight, and with room for a wider instrument than the narrow channel patterns used further back. At 13 mm this retractor holds a correspondingly wider span of tissue, so a longer stretch of the operative field stays open from a single placement.

17 cm suits the depth involved. Access to the mandibular body is typically intraoral through the buccal sulcus, so the bone lies only a few centimetres inside — the instrument needs enough length to reach past the cheek and no more. Excess length on an intraoral retractor projects out past the lips and collides with everything else working through the same opening.

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