SA Government Warns - Jail Time For Dentists Using Chinese-Made Crowns Or Dentures

[hatrack]

The dental industry has been warned that anyone found using illegal cut-price crowns and dentures imported from China faces jail, say the industry's watchdogs.

The Dental Technology Association of SA and the SA Dental Association have raised concerns about the number of illegal dental laboratories springing up, and the use of cheap and potentially deadly crowns and dentures that could put patients at risk. The products are often made in unregulated laboratories and can contain dangerous levels of lead, dental experts warned.

The Daily Mail in the UK reported that fears over the toxic metal content of crowns, veneers, bridges and dentures were raised when a 73-year-old American woman from Ohio became sick after being given a new crown made in China. In the US, four cases of lead poisoning have been linked to Chinese dental fixtures. A laboratory test revealed that some contained 210 times the acceptable level of lead.

Dave Owen, a member of the Dental Technology Association of SA, said many illegal dental technicians were practising in this country. "It is illegal to import dental goods from China. Anyone found importing these goods will get the maximum sentence: jail time. We will no longer give them a slap on the wrist with a mere R50 000 fine."

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http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&art_id=vn20080330084343237C955185

[philb]

1. Problem with toxic dental materials is not primarily from China made materials, but mainly U.S.

Mercury amalgam is still being used even though half of amalgam is mercury, which escapes continuously into the person and is the largest source of mercury in most people who have amalgam fillings. According to medical lab tests, those with amalgam fillings have approx. 10 times as much daily exposure to mercury as those who don't have amalgams.
www.flcv.com/damspr1.html

And most crowns have metals such as nickel, palladium, gold, etc. to which millions are immune reactive, so these commonly cause significant health effects according to the medical literature.

For example, nickel is carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and a high percentage of people are immune reactive to it enough to experience significant health effects - see articles and stats on the medical lab site that tests for immune reactivity-
www.melisa.org

But about 10% of people are immune reactive to palladium which also commonly causes common adverse health effects www.melisa.org

And millions are also documented to be immune reactive to gold www.melisa.org

But this only deals with the immune reactivity problem;

mixed metals in the mouth cause galvanic currents in the mouth that directly cause health problems in some
but also take the toxic metals into the body in high levels
(battery effect, generation of electric currents measurable by Radio Shack ampmeter)

But metals in the mouth along with EMF from appliances and electrical wiring, etc. also induce currents in the metals
which again can be measured and which transport the metals into the body, resulting in what are called amalgam tattoos
and high levels of toxic metals in the body and brain.

These high levels of metals in the body and high electric currents generated compared to body nervous system commonly cause significant health problems.
www.flcv.com/galv.html
www.flcv.com/periodon.html
www.flcv.com/indexa.html

The real problem is metals used in dentistry, not where they come from.
There are better options these days.