ENT Instruments

• Rosen needle aka House-Rosen needle
  Category: cutting
  Use: elevating tissue, fracturing crura from footplate

• Billeau ear loop
  Category: accessory
  Use: removing cerumen or foreign bodies form external ear canal

• House sickle knife
  Category: cutting
  Use: creating tympanomeatal flap

Ballenger knife aka swivel knife

Category: cutting

Use: blade on swivel for cutting nasal tissue

Cottle septal elevator

Category: cutting

Use: removing periosteum from septal bone

Mclvor mouth gag

Category: retracting

Use: retracting walls of the mouth

• Weder tongue blade
  Category: retracting
  Use: used to retract the tongue downward

• Walshem septal straightener
  Category: grasping
  Use: straightening displaced nasal facture

Tonsil snare

Category: cutting

Use: severing the tonsil at the base for removal

• Wullstein (micro) ear forceps
  Category: grasping
  Use: inserting prothesis or tubes

Barnhill curette

Category: cutting

Use: scraping away adenoid tissue

Myringotory knife

Category: cutting

Use: incising the tympanic membrane

Aufricht nasal rasp

Category: cutting

Use: filing hard tissue and bone

• Hurd dissector and pillar retractor
  Category: retractor
  Use: retracting and dissecting pillae

Takahashi aka pituitary forceps

Category: cutting

Use: removing small tissue