About Medidental
Medidental is a reference for medical and dental supply specifications. Every figure on this site is traced to a published primary source, the source is cited on the page it appears on, and the page carries the date the figure was last checked against it.
What this site is for
Supply specifications are scattered across standards bodies, regulatory databases, manufacturer data sheets and state statutes, and almost none of them are arranged the way somebody ordering actually needs them. The outer diameter of a 25-gauge needle is in one ISO standard, its colour code is in another, and the lengths anyone actually sells at that gauge are in a manufacturer's PDF. Medidental does that compilation and shows its working.
The site currently covers injection and reconstitution supplies — needle gauges and lengths, syringe graduations and unit scales, luer fittings, and the rules governing sharps disposal. What gets covered next is decided by where the sourcing is good and the questions are real, not by a published roadmap.
What this site is not
- Not a store. Nothing is sold here. There is no cart, no inventory and no order form, and there will not be.
- Not medical advice. Medidental publishes product specifications. Questions about treatment, dosing, injection technique, or whether a product suits you belong to a licensed prescriber or pharmacist. No page here answers them, by design.
- Not the former MediDent Supplies. This domain previously ran an online store operated by No Borders Dental Resources, Inc. That business is gone, its catalogue is gone, and this site is not affiliated with it, does not continue it, and cannot fulfil its orders. Where an archived figure from that catalogue is genuinely useful — a capacity, a fitment — it is published as a specification and marked as archived. Its part numbers appear only inside a section marked as a historical archive, never as a live catalogue, because nobody can order them from anyone.
How the figures get here
Every specification is compiled from a published source, checked against that source, and stamped with the date it was checked. The full method — what counts as a source, what happens when two sources disagree, and what gets rejected — is written up in how we verify.
The site carries 24 specification pages citing 287 sources: International Organization for Standardization texts, the FDA's device databases, the NIH's AccessGUDID registry, OSHA, the USPS, and the environmental and health agencies of individual states, among others. Those sources sit on 92 distinct domains — a count of domains rather than of organisations, since fda.gov and accessdata.fda.gov are both the FDA and both counted.
Nearly all of those sources are documents you can open from the citation. The entries that carry no link are listed anyway rather than left out: an archive export held offline, and dated records naming which retail listings were fetched and checked. Where a publisher has since put a cited document behind a login, the citation is replaced with an open equivalent, or with a dated archived snapshot labelled as one — an archived page opens, but it is not the live page and the entry says so.
Independence
Medidental is published independently. It carries no sponsorship, no guest posts and no paid placements, and no manufacturer or retailer has any say in what appears on it or how a specification is reported.
The site makes no claim to clinical expertise, and it does not need to: its authority rests entirely on the sources it cites and on the fact that you can check them yourself — every one of them but the archive export held offline. That is the point of publishing the source URL beside the figure rather than asking you to take our word for it.
How it pays for itself
Some pages link to retail listings for the products they describe. Those links are affiliate links: if you buy through one, we earn a commission at no additional cost to you, and every such link is marked as sponsored in the page's markup and disclosed in the footer of any page carrying one.
A link is only added where a real listing matches the specification on the page, and the match is stated so you can check it. Where no listing matches, the page says so, links nothing, and names what was searched for — so a refusal can be checked the same way a figure can. That is currently true of 8 specification pages.
What gets written is decided before what is linkable is known. Topics are picked from a search-demand sheet built from keyword data, and the sources for a page are collected in full before it is drafted; retail listings are looked at last, if at all. That ordering is the reason a specification here does not bend toward a product — not a promise about our intentions, but the sequence the pages are actually made in.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, or a source has moved or been withdrawn, we want to know and we will fix it. Corrections are made against the source, and the page's verified date moves only when the figures on it have actually been re-checked against the documents they came from — so a date on this site means someone looked, not that the page was touched.
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