Add one more thing to the list of tainted products from China—lead-based dental veneers and bridges.

Apparently, a 73-year-old New York woman found her dental bridge to be so uncomfortable that she had it removed and checked.  The defective dental piece was found to contain high levels of lead.  A subsequent ABC News investigation found that some Chinese-made dental pieces contain lead levels of 490 parts per million (ppm), more than five times higher than the 90 ppm level considered acceptable for toys.

  These unsafe, lead-based dental pieces are typical of the shoddy products sent from China—where cutting corners and meeting a very low bottom line are considered standard business practice. 

Yes, Chinese imports may be cheap.  But there are very worrying reasons for their low cost.

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