General, Plastic Surgery— FDA advisory panel SU

This is the classification system's broadest surgical catch-all, which is why it spans more distinct product codes than almost any other panel: electrosurgical generators and their handpieces, surgical lasers, wound dressings, sutures and staplers, surgical mesh, dermal fillers' 510(k)-eligible cousins, liposuction equipment, and a long tail of retractors, forceps, and site-specific instruments that fit no organ-system panel.

Because the panel is defined by exclusion — general surgery plus whatever plastic surgery uses — its product codes are unusually heterogeneous in risk profile, from Class I manual instruments to Class II energy-based systems with substantial special controls. When researching a device here, lean on the product code and regulation number rather than the panel label; two SU devices can have almost nothing in common clinically or technologically.