Comments on: Lead in Dental Products Continues to Worry Dentists http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/277/lead-dental-scandal/ Jim Du Molin offers dental marketing news and dental practice management advice for dentists. Mon, 1 Dec 2008 21:31:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bob Guzauskas http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/277/lead-dental-scandal/#comment-481 Bob Guzauskas Sun, 04 May 2008 17:20:48 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=277#comment-481 I would look at the labs and the manufactures supply chain for, "Good Manufacturing Practices" (GMP). In the USA GMP mandates that anything medical or dental be made on/in a dedicated facility or production line. That avoids contamination that could occur on switching production runs. Example: Acme Metals casts ingots for XYZ Dental Supply, and, casts lead sinkers for ABC Fishing Supply. O.K. but not on the same line or perhaps even at the same location. In the USA I would check the recyclers. Some labs remelt scrap. Some lab techs make jewelry in their lab, ...and God knows what else from what metal. The Chinese are notorious for farming out contracts to small job shops. If those smaller shops - often in a household - don't adhere to GMP, they might run jobs from XYZ Dental and ABC Fishing Supply in the same furnance and crucible. You will have contamination. Mission Control, we have a problem. Bob Guzauskas, DDS Mid-County Dental Center, Inc and, The Laboratory @ MCDC West Palm Beach, FL I would look at the labs and the manufactures supply chain for, “Good Manufacturing Practices” (GMP). In the USA GMP mandates that anything medical or dental be made on/in a dedicated facility or production line. That avoids contamination that could occur on switching production runs. Example: Acme Metals casts ingots for XYZ Dental Supply, and, casts lead sinkers for ABC Fishing Supply. O.K. but not on the same line or perhaps even at the same location. In the USA I would check the recyclers. Some labs remelt scrap. Some lab techs make jewelry in their lab, …and God knows what else from what metal.

The Chinese are notorious for farming out contracts to small job shops. If those smaller shops - often in a household - don’t adhere to GMP, they might run jobs from XYZ Dental and ABC Fishing Supply in the same furnance and crucible. You will have contamination.

Mission Control, we have a problem.

Bob Guzauskas, DDS
Mid-County Dental Center, Inc
and, The Laboratory @ MCDC
West Palm Beach, FL

]]> By: Lee Wight http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/277/lead-dental-scandal/#comment-455 Lee Wight Thu, 01 May 2008 02:06:57 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=277#comment-455 All this sweat about lead. WHAT ABOUT CHEWING ON 50% MERCURY?!! Far more toxic than lead. All this sweat about lead. WHAT ABOUT CHEWING ON 50% MERCURY?!! Far more toxic than lead.

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