The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is warning
dentists about the potential danger of buying and using counterfeit and
unapproved dental equipment. This follows the seizure of over 12,000
different pieces of poor quality dental equipment imported into the UK
from China and Pakistan and sold on auction websites such as eBay,
Amazon and Alibaba in the past 6 months.
The MHRA – the UK’s regulator for medical devices and medicines – has
six ongoing investigations involving the purchase of counterfeit and
unapproved dental equipment such as high-speed hand piece drills from
auction websites by UK dentists. The seized items include:
- 24 dental x-ray machines that emit high levels of radiation
- 384 hand-piece drills that could malfunction and disintegrate inside patient’s mouths
- 3,242 poor quality root canal files that could break
While there is no evidence to suggest that buying equipment from
auction websites is a widespread or deliberate practice among dentists,
the MHRA is concerned about the growing range of dental equipment that
is being advertised to dentists at cheap prices, both online and at
dental trade fairs in China.
The MHRA issued a safety alert to all dentistry professionals in
January 2014, following an incident in November 2013 when a counterfeit
product for drilling and cleaning teeth shattered while being used on a
patient. The patient was unharmed but the MHRA aims to raise awareness
among dentistry professionals so that other patients are not put at
risk.
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