Allis Tissue Forceps — 5×6 Teeth, 190 mm (19 cm)

Allis Tissue Forceps — 5×6 Teeth, 190 mm (19 cm) (Ref TI 08-16-02), manufactured at the Fizza Surgical facility in Sialkot, Pakistan.

Allis tissue forceps occupy a specific niche between atraumatic instruments and the crushing toothed forceps like Kocher: firm enough to retract or manipulate, without Kocher’s destructive grip. The hallmark is the multi-tooth tip — typically 4×5 or 5×6 teeth in a single row across the working end — distributing pressure across a wider area. Oscar Huntington Allis developed the pattern in late-nineteenth-century Philadelphia for laparotomy and bowel surgery. Today the Allis is standard for grasping the appendix base, stomach wall during gastric procedures, peritoneum during entry, and any structure needing firm but non-destructive traction. The Allis is to general surgery what Babcock is to bowel.

Sialkot has been the world’s primary cluster for surgical-instrument manufacturing since the late nineteenth century, when local steel workshops began supplying instruments to British military and civilian hospitals. Fizza Surgical’s facility continues that tradition, combining workshop craftsmanship with the metallurgy and quality systems modern medical regulation requires. Fizza products are exhibited at international medical-device trade fairs in Europe, the Middle East, and North America.