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    "last_updated": "2026-04-08",
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    {
      "status": "Terminated",
      "city": "Glendora",
      "state": "CA",
      "country": "United States",
      "classification": "Class II",
      "openfda": {},
      "product_type": "Devices",
      "event_id": "78861",
      "recalling_firm": "Ormco/Sybronendo",
      "address_1": "1332 S Lone Hill Ave",
      "address_2": "",
      "postal_code": "91740-5339",
      "voluntary_mandated": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
      "initial_firm_notification": "Letter",
      "distribution_pattern": "USA (nationwide) distributed  to AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.      Distributed internationally to Armenia, Australia, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand,  United Kingdom, Vietnam.",
      "recall_number": "Z-0413-2018",
      "product_description": "Elements Obturation Unit (EOU) used with respective Buchanan Heat Pluggers      Device is an endodontic root canal plugger. It is intended to be used in Dentistry to provide continuous heat at the tip of a dental instrument to test tooth response to thermal stimulus, for tissue cauterization and coagulation, to backfill and downpack gutta percha during Endodontic root canal treatment, and when in Extruder mode it is used only to backfill gutta percha during root canal obturation.",
      "product_quantity": "25,765 total",
      "reason_for_recall": "Buchanan Heat Pluggers will possibly overheat while used with the Elements Obturation Unit (EOU).",
      "recall_initiation_date": "20171227",
      "center_classification_date": "20180126",
      "termination_date": "20240429",
      "report_date": "20180207",
      "code_info": "Part Number for Elements Obturation Unit (EOU): 973-0322; and Part Numbers for the Buchanan Heat Pluggers: 952-0004, 952-0003, 952-0005, 952-0006, 952-0007, 952-0031, 973-0219 (hot pulp test tip).  All serial numbers of the EOU and respective Buchanan Heat Pluggers are included in the recall.",
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