Data of fracture effort in the deformation of the cutting surface of scalpel blades

Antonio Díaz-Caballero; Arnulfo Tarón-Dunoyer; Roes Hernandez-Ligardo

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.141

Data of fracture effort in the deformation of the cutting surface of scalpel blades

Data Brief. 2018 Dec 4:22:98-103. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.141. eCollection 2019 Feb.

Authors

Antonio Díaz-Caballero¹, Arnulfo Tarón-Dunoyer², Roes Hernandez-Ligardo¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Oral medicine, Gitouc Research group, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.
² Department of Food Science, Gibae Research group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.

Abstract

This article contains data related to the research article titled "Deformation of scalpel blades after incision of gingival tissue in pig mandibles. An ex vivo study" (Díaz et al., 2017) [1]. The presented data give information on the Rheological properties of a number 3 Bard Parker scalpel blades from the Paramount® and Elite® brands. The loss of the cutting capacity of the scalpel blades was evaluated, determining fracture efforts by incisions on gingival tissues. The Elite® brand presented greater efforts (41.40; 52.70; 59.00; 61.17; 64.00; 66.78; 72.15 and 74.18 Newton (N)) than the scalpel blades from the Paramount® brand (49.60; 51.40; 51.90; 52.33; 58.96; 62.24 and 69.08 N). The cutting effort increases with the number of cuts performed by each scalpel blade.