Scalpel Blades - Red, Sterile, Carbon Steel No. 12 (0204)

With dental and facial aesthetics in mind Swann-Morton offer a versatile fine range of handles and blades. The cutting edge expertise embodied within these blades meets the most demanding and complex requirements presented by modern day Periodontal, Cosmetic, Oral Implantology and Maxillofacial procedures

The No.12 is a small, pointed, crescent shaped blade sharpened along the inside edge of the curve. It is sometimes utilised as a suture cutter but also for parotid surgeries (facial salivary glands), mucosal cuts on a septoplasty (repair of nasal septum) and during cleft palate procedures, They are also used within the Dental surgery for raising skin flaps and for removing excess polymerised composite resin on the facial and interproximal region of the tooth during restoration procedures. The No.12  fits Handles 3, 3L, 3 Graduated, 5B, 7, 9, B3 and B3L.