A NEW GROOVED DIRECTOR FOR SIMPLIFIED NASAL LACRIMAL INTUBATION

This grooved director greatly simplifies retrieval of the olive tip probe.  The new Anderson-Hwang Grooved Director has many advantages over the older model, including thinner sidewalls that  help prevent the probe from slipping lateral to the groove.  The grooved director also simplifies intubation at DCR and the olive tip may be engaged under direct supervision at either standard or endoscopic DCR surgery.

Advantages:

• Minimizes trauma and bleeding of the nasal mucosa
• Greatly simplifies the intubation technique by trapping the olive tip probe
• Allows infracture expansion of the inferior meatus if the inferior turbinate is impacted