Merriam Tweezer, curved dressing forceps

Routine screening in a crowded lower arch is where the 22mm No.4 head earns its place — it slips behind second molars and into paediatric mouths where the 24mm No.5 and 26mm No.6 heads bind against the buccal mucosa. The reflection sits beneath the glass on a silver layer, giving a hard-wearing surface at the lowest price point in the range and accepting a slight secondary image that is irrelevant for general inspection and soft-tissue retraction. Head and stem are stainless steel with a European metric thread, autoclavable, and supplied 12 per box for chairside rotation between sterilisation cycles.