Surgical Instruments of Bradford Cannon

Surgical Instruments of Bradford Cannon

Cannon, Bradford

Surgical instruments and aparatus

Surgery, Plastic

From left to right:

A vacuum device used in skin grafting.

Split Skin Grafting Knife with grooved shaft into which razor sharp blades with a rigid backing are slid.

Wire arch used to minimize tension at the suture line after the cleft lip repair. Also may be used to narrow the alveolar gap in the cleft palate with tight adhesive strips across both cheeks.

Mouth gag with tiny prongs to hold it in place in the edentulous jaws. Used for repair of cleft palate.

Variety of surgical instruments used by Dr. Bradford Cannon

Cannon, Bradford

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National Archives of Plastic Surgery. Bradford Cannon Instruments.

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4 instruments

physical object

Gift of Bradford Cannon, M.D. to the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 2001.