TAIYUAN, China: Over the last couple of weeks, details have begun emerging of an investigation into a disturbing and highly profitable trade in dead body parts for use in the production of allogenic dental bone grafts in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi. The case was initially brought to light by a local criminal lawyer, who alleged in a social media post that a local company was under investigation for having illegally acquired over 4,000 bodies from crematoriums and medical laboratories across the region for use within the dental industry.