Toffee Mallet, 19 cm – 22 mm Head, 165 g

The defining dimension here is the 22 mm head, which is small for a surgical mallet. A broad face is an advantage when there is room to swing and a large target to hit; in the mouth or across a maxillofacial exposure it becomes a liability, because the head contacts teeth, retractors or the opposing arch before it reaches the chisel. A narrow face fits into that space and lands on the instrument alone.

165 g places it at the light end of the range, matched to the scale of the work rather than to bulk bone removal. Osteotomes used in dental and maxillofacial procedures are short and driven a few millimetres at a time, so the useful mallet is one that advances them in small, repeatable steps. The 19 cm handle keeps the balance point close to the hand for control at that scale.

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