Teleflex Incorporated 155 South Limerick Road Limerick, PA 19468 USA
Richard A. Meier	Phone: 610-948-1755
Executive Vice President and	Fax: 610-948-1703
Chief Financial Officer
	www.teleflex.com

December 17, 2010

VIA FACSIMILE AND OVERNIGHT MAIL

Russell Mancuso, Branch Chief
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549

Re:	Teleflex Incorporated
	Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2009
	Filed February 25, 2010
	File No. 001-5353

Dear Mr. Mancuso:

This letter responds to your request set forth in a discussion between Celia Soehner of the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission and our counsel, Roxane Reardon of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, regarding our October 27, 2010 letter responding to your October 13, 2010 letter with respect to our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.

As requested by the staff, Teleflex Incorporated (the “company”) acknowledges the following:

• the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;

• staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and

• the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

Russell Mancuso, Branch Chief
December 17, 2010
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If you have any questions or additional comments, please call the undersigned at (610) 948-1755.

Sincerely,

/s/ Richard A. Meier

Richard A. Meier
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer