You can purchase your dissecting kit here at SSOM. If you decide to
compile your own collection of tools, they should include the following:
- Scalpel blade hold and disposable blades (No. 20) (A) - Don't get the small blades.
- Surgical scissors (B) - used for general cutting of skin or fascia. They also are useful for
spreading tissue layers.
- Small Hemostats (C) - useful for clamping structures out of the dissection field or for
grasping thin skin.
- Anatomical Forceps (D) (smooth tipped)- used for holding delicate structures.
- Tissue Forceps (large) (E) - used to hold thick skin when skinning etc. Also called " rat
tooth" forceps.
- Dental cotton tool or curved forceps (F) - the most valuable tool in your kit. Used to
clean nerves and arteries through fat and fascia.
- Flexible probe (G) - used to penetrate canals or foramina.
- Blunt probe (H) - used to manipulate or to probe larger openings.
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