Custom dental appliance: non-detect (negative) for Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium & Antimony.

Custom Dental Appliance

Below are the XRF Test results for the custom dental appliance pictured here. Please scroll down through all of the images below as well. Each component was tested for a minimum of 60 seconds with the results reported below. Tests were repeated multiple times on each component to confirm the accuracy. Test results are accurate, science-based and replicable.

Top part of appliance – photos above

Test #1) Plastic component

• Iron (Fe): 196 +/- 43 ppm
• (no other metals detected)

Test #2) Plastic component Reading #2:

• Iron (Fe): 261 +/- 32 ppm
• (no other metals detected)

Test #3) Metal hooked part at front

• Chromium (Cr): 26,000 +/- 1,100 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 1,722 +/- 95 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 7,004 +/- 458 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 106,600 +/- 4,200 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 9,886 +/- 741 ppm

Test #4) Metal hooked part at front – test #2

• Chromium (Cr): 12,300 +/- 400 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 140 +/- 26 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 237 +/- 84 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 3,659 +/- 204 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 56,400 +/- 1,500 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 964 +/- 217 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 964 +/- 190 ppm

Test #5) Focus on metal part in center

• Chromium (Cr): 2,372 +/- 80 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 160 +/- 41 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 905 +/- 68 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 16,300 +/- 400 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 121 +/- 50 ppm

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Bottom component of device – photos above

Test #6) Plastic component:

• no metals detected

Test #7) Large metal rectangle part:
(other thicker metal components had similar readings)

• Chromium (Cr): 123,300 +/- 9,800 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 2,654 +/- 872 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 73,100 +/- 6,400 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 503,100 +/- 40,000 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 149 +/- 76 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 1,492 +/- 76 ppm

Test #8) Thin metal wire:

• Chromium (Cr): 18,800 +/- 600 ppm
• Selenium (Se): 40 +/- 19 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 1,732 +/- 58 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 318 +/- 94 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 6,085 +/- 250 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 92,500 +/- 2,200 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 26 +/- 14 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 401 +/- 222 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 11,100 +/- 600 ppm

Test #9) White plastic case:

• Tin (Sn): 83 +/- 35 ppm 
• no other metals detected

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Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama