UNSPSC 42152916: Dental mixing bags

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product that is either an accessory or consumable associated with dental saliva ejector or oral suction devices. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 392690.

UNSPSC 42152916 Dental mixing bags is a Commodity code that in practice encompasses specialized dental diagnostic and clinical equipment rather than consumable mixing supplies. State and local educational institutions, particularly community colleges with dental hygiene and dental medicine programs, solicit under this code for advanced intraoral scanning technology and related diagnostic devices used in clinical training and patient care. The issuing bodies are predominantly post-secondary educational institutions with dental or allied health departments seeking to upgrade or establish digital diagnostic infrastructure for their instructional and clinical operations.

Valencia College's School of Allied Health, Dental Hygiene Department posted a sole source procurement (SS202620) in November 2025 for four iTero Lumina Scanners from Align Technology, Inc., totaling $143,196.00, with a response deadline of November 27, 2025. The notice was filed under Florida Administrative Code 6A-14.0734(2)(a)(h) and Florida Statute 287.057, reflecting the post-secondary procurement framework in Florida. Activity under this code shows limited recent state and local solicitation volume; the single recent opportunity identifies no geographic diversity beyond the Florida posting and no involvement of municipal, county, or state health departments or purchasing cooperatives in the recent record. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope (dental mixing bags, a consumable) and the actual procurement (high-cost capital equipment for digital scanning) suggests the code may be misapplied in state and local taxonomy or used as a catch-all for specialized dental acquisitions that lack a more precise classification.