'Fake' imported dentist equipment seized by regulators

Name: 'Fake' imported dentist equipment seized by regulators
Uploaded: 2014-10-17T17:53:42.000Z
Duration: 2 min 15 s
Description: More than 12,000 pieces of illegal dental equipment have been seized in the UK in the past six months.

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Thousands of fake and substandard dentist products, imported from countries including China, have been seized by regulators.

The equipment, discovered during an investigation by the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA), included faulty power drills and dangerously wired X-ray machines.

Branwen Jeffreys reports.

17 October 2014