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5 ScalpelPoint ™ vs. the leading brand ScalpelPoint™ Premium Suture Needles 300 Series Stainless Steel Greater tensile strength, higher ductility with less brittleness. Our ScalpelPoint™ Premium Needles are mechanically processed to make the steel harder while retaining the high tensile strength. This enables the ScalpelPoint™ needles to have very sharp points and blades, with very good durability, while maintaining their flexibility. Bend but Don't Break The ScalpelPoint™ offers some "give" to the forces generated from the needle being pushed and pulled through tissue, but its "memory" allows the needle to spring back to its normal shape as the force is reduced. During more extreme use, such as reforming the needle for a particular use, greater force can be used to permanently bend the needle into a new shape, without breaking the needle. This is an important safety feature, as ScalpelPoint™ needles are less likely to break during a procedure. Finely Ground and Polished ScalpelPoint™ needles are then finely ground before being electrically and chemically polished. Finally the needle surface is siliconized, which effectively acts as an inert lubricant to allow the needle to slide through tissue. This processing allows the ScalpelPoint™ needles to pass through tissue with less force. The following charts compares ScalpelPoint™ needles versus a leading brand. As you can see, the ScalpelPoint™ cutting & taper point needles retain their sharpness after multiple penetrations. PENETRATION FORCE COMPARISON ScalpelPoint™ Competitor 0.56 0.44 0.33 0.22 0.11 1 Stitch2 Stitch3 Stitch4 Stitch5 Stitch6 Stitch7 Stitch8 Stitch9 Stitch 10 Stitch PENETRATION FORCE (lbs) ScalpelPoint™ (Cutting NFS-1) & Competitor ScalpelPoint™ (Taper NCT-2) & Competitor 1.01 0.89 0.78 0.67 0.56 0.44 0.33 0.22 0.11 1 Stitch 2 Stitch 3 Stitch 4 Stitch5 Stitch6 Stitch7 Stitch8 Stitch9 Stitch 10 Stitch ScalpelPoint™ Competitor SutureVet™ Catalog The Covetrus SutureVet™ cross-reference app takes all the guesswork out of searching for the correct SutureVet™ product code on your smartphone. 1. Simply type a competitive SKU into the blue box under the text that reads "Enter Competitive Product Code:" 2. Tap the "Convert SKU" button 3. And in the blue box below the text "Covetrus product code" the SutureVet™ SKU will appear. The SutureVet™ app has the ability to cross-reference the following competitors' product codes: • Ethicon • Patterson • Covidien • MWI • VPL • Securos • VetOne • CP Medical SutureVet ™ SKU / PRODUCT CODE CONVERSION APP

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