Dressing forceps are a popular type of tissue forceps. They are used for dressing wounds and pealing off the dressing. In medical language, dressing forceps is defined as a slender forceps for grasping or holding gauze or sutures and removing small fragments of necrosed tissues and other foreign bodies in dressing wounds. These forceps are widely used to care for wounds and remove dressing. They are larger and resemble something more in the realm of tongs.

Dressing forceps usually look like tweezer. Dressing forceps may be curved or straight tipped with serrated beak. In some cases it may be smooth. They have scissor-like handles for grasping lint, drainage tubes, etc. There are dressing forceps with a range of curvatures specific to the type of surgery the surgeon is performing

Types of dressing forceps

There are different varieties of dressing forceps.