Australian Made Dentures

 
Here at DK Dental Studio we make dentures direct to the public and we also supply the dental profession with dental prosthetics which are 100% totally Australian made.

If you use our services you do not have to worry about your appliance being made overseas with poor quality materials or even toxic material.

Give us a call for you Australian made crowns and bridges, dentures and other prosthetics.

Please read the article below from The Sydney Morning herald.

Dentists warned on cheap imports

Date: August 24 2009
Kelly Burke Consumer Affairs Reporter

DENTISTS should be compelled to disclose to their patients where their crowns, dentures and other products are made, according to the dental manufacturing industry.

After warning last week that heavy metals such as nickel, beryllium, lead and cadmium were being used in cheap imported products, the Oral Health Professional Association’s College of Dental Technicians said consumers had a right to decide for themselves whether they wanted cheap unregulated products in their mouths.

The Australian Dental Industry Association, a group representing suppliers of dental equipment, raised concerns about dentists using the internet to buy non-custom-made products, such as dental instruments and amalgam, which are not included on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods.

Dentists caught flouting the regulations face fines of up to $550,000 while companies face fines of up to $5.5 million.

But in a letter to the Herald, the NSW president of the Australian Dental Association, Anthony Burges, described the dental product industry’s concerns as baseless scaremongering. ”Both groups making the allegations have a vested financial interest in selling products to dental professionals,” Dr Burges wrote.

”Dentists are well aware of the legal repercussions of using non-approved products and should be able to satisfy themselves of the safety … of any product used in patient treatment.”

Dr Burges said patients were within their rights to ask their dentists where any product or material they used was made, and whether it had appropriate approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

”Ethical and honest health providers will have no problems in providing this information,” he said.

The local dental prosthetic industry has lost about half its business to low-cost offshore laboratories.

Brandishing their Australian credentials, the collection houses send orders to countries such as South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, India and China, where cheap labour and materials and lax health and safety regulations mean the finished product can cost as little as one-sixth of the Australian-made equivalent.

Laws governing custom-made dental devices are still being drawn up by the TGA. This means dental collection houses are conducting their export-import operations in an unregulated but totally legal environment. Australia’s largest maker of custom dental devices, Race Dental Laboratory, recently invested $2 million in a laser sinter machine, one of only 11 in the world.

The new technology enables the company to produce basic crowns at a cost of about $135 each. But this is still not competitive enough to stem the tide of overseas business in places such as China, where the same crown can cost as little as $25 to make.

❏ Saturday’s report ”Dentists targeted on toxic imports” should have said commercial dental publications regularly carried advertising for foreign dental supply companies. The Australian Dental Journal carries no such advertising.

This material is subject to copyright and any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited.