Product Details
Plastic and cosmetic surgery needles you can trust
Scars tell stories. And now more than ever, patients judge the success of their surgery on the appearance of their scars. That’s why we designed needles that are sharper and stronger than our legacy premium cutting needles – to give you unmatched consistency and control with a needle that helps you thread stories of success for your patients.
Product Features
Edgellant™ premium cutting needles
The innovative robotic electropolishing process used to produce our Edgellant™ premium cutting needles creates a sharper cutting needle, and our new heat treatment makes it stronger.
Benefits of Edgellant™ premium cutting needles are:
- Reduced penetration force needed to pass1
- Better needle control when passing through tissue than our legacy needles2
- 30% sharper than our legacy needles, staying sharp after multiple passes1
- 27% stronger than our legacy needles3
- Less likely to bend than our legacy needles3 and, if they do, more likely to go back into shape without breaking4
- 27% better second degree bend moment than our legacy needles4
- As sharp or sharper than competitor equivalent needles1
- Needle tips three times stronger than competitor equivalent needle tips4
ReliaPoint™ cutting needles
ReliaPoint™ cutting needles will replace conventional cutting needles. And they’ll be available in all Medtronic suture materials.
Benefits of ReliaPoint™ cutting needles include:
- New tip geometry makes the needle sharper and easier to pass than equivalent competitor needles5
- 34% sharper at first pass
- 40% sharper after 30 passes
- Reinforced reliability due to the enhanced silicone coating process, which helps maintain sharpness across multiple passes, for example when closing long incisions5
- Improved suture-to-needle diameter ratio compared with our legacy needles makes pass through more consistent
