Forceps
The largest collection on the store: 1,397 forceps spanning general surgery, microsurgery, cardiovascular, ENT, ophthalmic and dental. If an instrument grips, holds or grasps, it is here.
General surgery and tissue handling: Adson, Adson-Brown, Allis, Babcock, Kocher, Gerald, DeBakey, Russian, Potts-Smith, Cushing, Semken, Ferris-Smith, Bonney and Rat-Tooth. Microsurgery: Yasargil, Rhoton, Jansen, Castroviejo, Barraquer, Jeweler, and bipolar patterns. Specialty: Magill catheter, Hartmann and Micro-Hartmann, Tischler and Kevorkian biopsy, Doyen intestinal, Lahey traction, sponge and dressing forceps.
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Mixter gall stone forceps with curved jaws, 22cm working length. Designed for grasping and extracting calculi from the gallbladder and biliary duct...
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Original price $39.76 - Original price $39.76Original price$39.76$39.76 - $39.76Current price $39.76Mixter Forceps 9"
The 9" Mixter Forceps are long, right-angle surgical forceps designed for deep tissue access and precise dissection in complex surgical fields. The...
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Original price $32.07 - Original price $32.07Original price$32.07$32.07 - $32.07Current price $32.07Mixter Forceps 7-1/4"
The 7-1/4" Mixter Forceps are right-angle surgical forceps designed for precise dissection, clamping, and retraction around vessels and tubular str...
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Original price $26.16 - Original price $26.16Original price$26.16$26.16 - $26.16Current price $26.16Mixter Forceps 6-1/2"
The 6-1/2" Mixter Forceps are right-angle surgical instruments designed for controlled dissection and atraumatic manipulation of tissue in moderate...
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Mixter forceps with a right-angle design, providing precise access to deep or angled surgical sites. Ideal for clamping, dissecting, and manipulati...
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Mixter Artery Forceps with Fully Curved Jaws are surgical instruments designed for clamping arteries, blood vessels, or tissues in procedures where...
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Original price $569.70 - Original price $569.70Original price$569.70$569.70 - $569.70Current price $569.70Mini Precise Compact Needle Holder, 3.5mm
1st Generation Simplicity, 3rd Generation Innovation Cost Effective- Competitively Priced Durability Reprocessing Ease No Parts to Assemble...
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Original price $115.20 - Original price $115.20Original price$115.20$115.20 - $115.20Current price $115.20Millin Capsule Forceps 23cm Curved
Millin capsule forceps with a 23cm shaft for grasping the prostatic capsule during open prostatectomy. The jaw pattern provides secure traction on ...
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Original price $80.33 - Original price $80.33Original price$80.33$80.33 - $80.33Current price $80.33Mikulicz Parametrium Forceps 18 cm
The Mikulicz Parametrium Forceps measures 18 cm and is used in gynecologic surgery to grasp parametrial tissue. Built with German surgical-steel co...
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Mikulicz intestinal forceps with 7¾-inch length and 80mm right-angled jaws, designed for secure clamping of intestinal tissue during gastrointestin...
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Original price $493.18 - Original price $493.18Original price$493.18$493.18 - $493.18Current price $493.18Middleton-Jansen Septum Forceps 19cm
Middleton-Jansen septum forceps, 19cm overall length, designed for nasal septum resection and submucous procedures. German surgical-steel construct...
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Original price $507.98 - Original price $507.98Original price$507.98$507.98 - $507.98Current price $507.98Middleton-Jansen Septum Forceps 19cm (Ref. R06008)
Middleton-Jansen septum forceps, 19cm working length. Designed for resection of septal cartilage and bone during septoplasty. German surgical-steel...
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Original price $308.27 - Original price $533.52Original price$308.27 - $533.52$308.27 - $533.52Current price $308.27Microsurgery Forceps Straight Smooth Tip
Straight microsurgery forceps with a smooth fine tip for atraumatic tissue handling. Offered in 12cm (0.3mm tip), 21cm (0.8mm tip) and 23cm (0.8mm ...
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Original price $516.84 - Original price $653.56Original price$516.84 - $653.56$516.84 - $653.56Current price $516.84Microsurgery Forceps Straight Diamond Jaw
Straight microsurgery forceps with a diamond-dusted jaw insert that improves grip on fine sutures and delicate tissue. Available in 12cm (0.3mm tip...
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Original price $416.81 - Original price $416.81Original price$416.81$416.81 - $416.81Current price $416.81Microsurgery Forceps Straight 18cm, Diamond Jaw
Straight microsurgery forceps, 18cm in length with a 0.8mm diamond-coated jaw for enhanced grip on fine sutures and delicate tissues. German surgic...
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Original price $360.83 - Original price $360.83Original price$360.83$360.83 - $360.83Current price $360.83Microsurgery Forceps Straight 18cm, 0.8mm Tip
Straight microsurgery forceps measuring 18cm with a fine 0.8mm tip for precise grasping of delicate tissues. Constructed from German surgical steel...
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Original price $343.32 - Original price $343.32Original price$343.32$343.32 - $343.32Current price $343.32Microsurgery Forceps Straight 15cm Smooth Tip
Straight microsurgery forceps measuring 15cm with a smooth 0.3mm tip for atraumatic handling of fine tissue. German surgical-steel construction wit...
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Original price $433.48 - Original price $433.48Original price$433.48$433.48 - $433.48Current price $433.48Microsurgery Forceps Straight 15cm Diamond Jaw
Straight microsurgery forceps measuring 15cm with a 0.3mm tip and diamond-dusted jaw insert that improves grip on fine sutures and delicate tissue....
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Original price $516.84 - Original price $516.84Original price$516.84$516.84 - $516.84Current price $516.84Microsurgery Forceps Stop Pin 1x2 Teeth Straight Diamond 18 cm
Microsurgery forceps with guide stop pin to control closure pressure, straight 1x2 teeth, and diamond-coated jaw for secure tissue handling. 18 cm ...
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Original price $533.52 - Original price $550.20Original price$533.52 - $550.20$533.52 - $550.20Current price $533.52Microsurgery Forceps 1x2 Teeth Straight Diamond Jaw 21 cm 0.8 mm
Microsurgery tissue forceps with straight 1x2 teeth and diamond-coated jaw for secure grasp of delicate tissue. 0.8 mm tip width at 21 cm length su...
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Original price $500.18 - Original price $500.18Original price$500.18$500.18 - $500.18Current price $500.18Microsurgery Forceps 1x2 Teeth Straight Diamond Jaw 15 cm 0.3 mm
Microsurgery tissue forceps with straight 1x2 teeth and diamond-coated jaw for secure grasp of fine tissue. 0.3 mm tip width at 15 cm working lengt...
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Micro-Hartmann hemostatic forceps with straight jaws and a 10cm overall length, used to clamp fine vessels and control bleeding in microsurgical an...
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Original price $231.53 - Original price $231.53Original price$231.53$231.53 - $231.53Current price $231.53Micro Suture Tying Forceps, 95mm, 0.2mm Tip, 1x2 Teeth
Micro suture tying forceps, 95mm overall length with a 0.2mm tip and 1x2 teeth pattern. Toothed jaws provide secure tissue purchase in microsurgica...
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Original price $261.63 - Original price $261.63Original price$261.63$261.63 - $261.63Current price $261.63Micro Suture Tying Forceps, 140mm, 0.8mm Tip
Micro suture tying forceps, 140mm overall length with a 0.8mm atraumatic tip. Suited to fine knot tying across microsurgical and ophthalmic procedu...
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Adson, Allis, Babcock: three that are not interchangeable
These three are the ones most often substituted for each other, and each substitution has a characteristic failure.
Adson is a fine thumb forceps for skin and subcutaneous tissue - short, broad-handled, used in the fingertips. Stocked with cross-serrated tips, fenestrated handles, and 1x2 teeth. Its job is precise, light handling where you can see the tip.
Allis has interdigitating teeth on a ratcheted ring handle. It grips hard and it marks what it grips. Right for tissue being excised, a specimen, or fascia under load. Wrong for anything staying in the patient.
Babcock has a broad, fenestrated, atraumatic jaw shaped for bowel. Wide surface, low pressure, no teeth. It holds; it does not dissect and it does not grip under real load.
The rule: an Allis on bowel perforates it; a Babcock on fascia slips. Same error from opposite directions, and the reason a general tray carries all three.
Why the DeBakey jaw looks the way it does
A DeBakey forceps carries fine longitudinal rows of teeth that interdigitate rather than meet - quite unlike the transverse serrations of an ordinary tissue forceps.
The reason is the intima. A vessel's lining is a single cell layer, and where it is crushed, platelets aggregate and a thrombus forms. Transverse serrations pinch along one line; the DeBakey pattern spreads the hold along the jaw's length and grips a vessel wall firmly without creating that line. It is why DeBakey tips appear on vascular forceps, needle holders and the Gerald-DeBakey hybrid, and why they cost more than a plain tissue forceps of the same size.
Toothed or smooth, and what the numbers mean
Titles here carry notation like 1x2, 2x3 or 4x5. That is the tooth count on each jaw - one tooth opposing two, and so on. More teeth means a broader, more distributed grip; fewer means a more concentrated bite.
Smooth (serrated but untoothed) jaws compress without penetrating - for vessels, bowel, dura, anything where a puncture matters. Toothed jaws penetrate and hold against traction - for skin, fascia, and tissue being removed.
Tip width is the other number to read: a 0.3mm micro tip and a 2.0mm vascular tip are different instruments even when the pattern name is the same.
Bayonet and angled shafts
Several patterns - Gerald, Cushing, Jansen, Yasargil - come in bayonet form, where the shaft steps sideways before the tip.
That step is not styling. It moves the surgeon's hand and the instrument's body out of the line of sight, which is what makes it possible to work down a narrow corridor - a craniotomy, a nasal cavity, a deep pelvic field - while still seeing the tip. On an open field a bayonet offers nothing; in a corridor it is the difference between working by sight and working by feel.
Frequently asked
Are needle holders in this collection? Some appear here historically, but the full range now has its own page - see Needle Holders.
What is the difference between tissue, dressing and thumb forceps? Tissue forceps are toothed and grip tissue. Dressing forceps are serrated and untoothed, for packing and dressings. Thumb forceps describes the non-ratcheted, tweezer-style action rather than the jaw - an Adson is a thumb forceps.
Why are some titanium? Lighter, non-magnetic, and MRI-compatible. On microsurgery, the weight reduction genuinely reduces hand fatigue over a long case.
Is Kocher the same as Rochester-Ochsner? Yes, one instrument with two names, both used on tray lists. Both spellings appear in these titles for that reason.
Related collections
See also Hemostatic Forceps, Needle Holders, Surgical Clamps, General Surgery Instruments, Yasargil Instruments and Rhoton Instruments.
Specialty forceps: Endoscopic Biopsy Forceps, Laparoscopic Forceps, Arthroscopic Graspers, Bipolar Forceps, Micro Cup Forceps, Dissectors and Dental Tissue & Cotton Forceps.