UNSPSC 42151612: Dental retractors

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product that is an instrument that's used to move the cheek, lips, and tongue out of the way during a dental procedure. US FDA regulates Dental retractors under 21 CFR 872.4565 and under FDA product code EIF. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901890.

UNSPSC 42151612 Dental retractors (Commodity) represents a significant mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the work actually being solicited under it in recent state and local procurement activity. Recent opportunities tagged to this code do not involve dental retractors — a hand instrument category — but instead span digital intraoral scanning equipment (iTero Lumina 3D imaging devices), broad-based dental and medical equipment and supplies procurement frameworks, and wastewater treatment monitoring instrumentation. Valencia College's School of Allied Health, Dental Hygiene Department, a community college in Florida, has driven the most substantive recent activity: a sole source procurement for 4 iTero Lumina Scanners from Align Technology, Inc., totaling $143,196.00. This acquisition, posted in October 2026 and due November 27, 2025, was conducted under Florida Administrative Code 6A-14.0734(2)(a)(h) and Florida Statute 287.057 with a seven-business-day public posting process before final approval. The remaining opportunities show even less alignment — Texas A&M University Division of Finance Procurement Services issued an ITB (ITB TAMHSC-26-0648) for a pool of vendors to supply dental and medical equipment and supplies on a master order basis with a September 3, 2026 response date, while the City of Arlington, Texas posted an RFP for a cyanide flow analyzer for wastewater operations, wholly unrelated to dental equipment.

Activity under this code appears minimal and geographically scattered across Texas and Florida, with no clear concentration or pattern suggesting sustained state and local demand for dental retractors themselves. The issuing bodies range from a community college to a state university system to a municipal wastewater authority — heterogeneous both in mission and in the actual goods and services being sought. The mismatch between the code's name and recent opportunity content suggests either systematic tagging errors in the source data or that this Commodity code is rarely used for its intended product line by state and local procurement offices.