Henry Schein sued in USA over amalgam
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- Published: Monday, 21 September 2015 07:45
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Henry Schein, Inc. has been hit with a series of lawsuits filed by Gerard Fox Law alleging the dental supply giant is jeopardising the public’s health, trust and the integrity of the water supply through deceptive and underhanded business practices. The use of mercury in dental fillings is nothing less than a potential ticking time bomb in your mouth, according to the lawsuit.
The three complaints allege that the company and its top executives maliciously misrepresented their intentions when they induced former business partner Ken Rosenblood to bring them into a deal to buy two health compliance companies with which they were actually competing; not to grow them, not to improve compliance, but to bury them in order to protect their existing profit centers that put patient health and safety at needless risk.
Ken Rosenblood, who made a deal with Henry Schein to invest in companies on the cutting edge of safe removal and disposal of mercury in amalgam dental fillings says Henry Schein, Inc. concocted a carefully orchestrated scheme to bury these companies in order to protect its profitable amalgam business. Schein then ousted Rosenblood and took away his rights to purchase additional equity, the lawsuit says.
Today, as a result of Henry Schein's actions, including trying to keep the dangers of mercury away from the public, patients with damaged amalgam fillings are being deceived about their exposure to poisonous mercury and the environment is being damaged, the lawsuit alleges.
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I rather suspect that amalgam doesn't make any supplier much profit compared to other restorative materials. Nobody has much incentive to defend amalgam apart from the patient (and those dentists who care more about evidence than profit).You need to be logged in to leave comments.
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