Materials
| Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
| Bone removal drill | World Precision Instruments | IDEAL MICRO-DRILL | Also sold by Harvard Apparatus. Any high quality surgical bone drill will suffice. |
| Drill burr (#1/4 or 1/2 Carbide Round Burr) | World Precision Instruments | 501860 (#1/4) 501860 (#1/2) |
Also sold by Harvard Apparatus |
| Staples | Lyreco | 5.002.567 | Crown = 8 mm Leg = 4 mm |
| Paperclip | Any standard 25 mm paperclip | ||
| Needle drivers | Fine Science Tools | 12003-15 | |
| Tissue scissors | Fine Science Tools | 14028-10 | |
| Adson forceps | Fine Science Tools | 11027-12 | 1 x 2 teeth |
| Blunt forceps | Fine Science Tools | 11293-00 | |
| Spinal forks | Harvard Apparatus | 724813 | |
| Dental cement | GACD | 12-565 & 12-568 | |
| Silicone elastomer | World Precision Instruments | KWIK-SIL | Also avaiable through Coherent Scientific and Fisher Scientific |
| Cyanoacrylate | Eleco-EFD | Cyanolit 201 | |
| Microscope | Zeiss | 7MP | Our microscope is in an upright configuration and is equipped with 5 NDD detectors. |
| Objective lens | Zeiss | W Plan-Apochromat 20x/1.0 DIC M27 75mm | Working distance = 1.8 mm |
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