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Plastic surgery of the face requires patience and accuracy since the outcome is always visible. Well-adjusted instruments are essential to avoid tissue trauma and scarring. Exact instruments like the fine tipped tissue and thumb forceps are for…

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.…

Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…