Name: 300 Root Forceps, Serrated - Upper Roots | SurgiWorld
SKU: FR300S
Price: 189.99 CAD
Availability: BackOrder

Clinical Use

300 Root Forceps, Serrated is the upper-arch pattern in the standard 300/301 root-forceps pair, built specifically for retained root fragments rather than intact crowns. It’s reached for whenever the coronal portion of a tooth has fractured off during an extraction attempt, or when a root has been left behind from an earlier procedure and needs to be removed on its own.

A standard extraction pattern is shaped around a full crown surface, which gives it nothing to grip once that structure is gone. The 300’s narrow, tapered beaks close instead around what remains of the root, seating at or below the gumline where a wider forceps head simply cannot reach a clean purchase point.

Design and Handling

Fine serrations run along each beak tip, biting into the root surface just enough to prevent the instrument from slipping during controlled extraction movements, without crushing or fracturing the already-compromised root structure further. The curved shank and ribbed handle grip support the same rotational and luxating movements used with any extraction forceps pattern, scaled down for the finer, more controlled grip a root-fragment removal calls for.

It’s kept on the tray alongside the 301 (its lower-arch counterpart) so a clinician has the correctly angled root pattern on hand for whichever arch the retained fragment is in, rather than adapting a general-purpose forceps to a job it wasn’t shaped for.

Material and Sterilization

Manufactured from medical-grade stainless steel, the 300 Root Forceps, Serrated resists corrosion and holds its beak alignment and serration sharpness through repeated autoclave cycles, keeping the grip consistent case after case.