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Materialise´s Simplant Set To Expand?

posted in Dental Implant News, Dental Implant Software, Surgical Guides for Implant Placement

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Materialise is sure making waves. First there was a recent lawsuit against Nobel, and just about a week ago the company announced that Dentsply acquired a forty percent interest in Materialise Dental N.V., in a cash transaction of 20 million euros. The deal also paves the way for Dentsply to possibly acquire all of Materialise over time.

Mr. Gary Kunkle, DENTSPLY’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, stated, “We are excited about our investment in Materialise Dental which has a strong background of innovation in the dental, automation software and rapid prototyping industries.” “Materialise Dental inherits the technology and experience of Materialise, and joining forces with DENTSPLY will allow the company to expand further in the field of 3D Digital Dentistry and Dental CAD/CAM that can be broadly applied in many dental procedures,” says Bart Swaelens, Chief Executive Officer of Materialise Dental.

Any thoughts on how this new partnership between Dentsply and Materialise will effect other players in the implant software planning, and CAD/CAM markets? Could Sirona Dental Systems (Nasdaq: SIRO), fresh off its merger with Schick Technologies, soon be feeling some pressure? What about Nobel? Heliane Canepa, CEO of Nobel, recently claimed that NobelGuide does ‘not violate patents of Materialise’ and the lawsuit filed against it by the Belgium group is ‘unjustified,’. How else could this deal between Dentsply and Materialise change the dental technology landscape?

About Materialise
Materialise Dental´s Simplant tools enable implantologists and oral surgeons to scientifically plan dental implant surgery on an interactive basis. Materialise Dental also offers a customized drill guide product under the brand name SurgiGuide which can be used by implantologists or oral surgeons during the implant procedure to ensure accurate implant placement. Materialise Dental holds numerous patents related to preparation of
medical models, including dental implant drilling guides, using CT
scans and rapid prototyping.

6 Responses to “ Materialise´s Simplant Set To Expand? ”

• Anonymous August 15th, 2006

  
  

  What we need is a physiological attachment between bone and implant. Including the natural build of a “periodontal membrane” so that forces/ stress that is imposed onto the implant is absorbed, and not directed at the bone alone. BMP-2 is a sine qua non for this, but so are new materials.

• Dr. Akintade Dare, CEO, DenterScan Diagnsotci Radiologic Services, Inc., Hollywood, FL August 18th, 2006

  
  

  One thing is certain about the Future of Dental Implant: If you don’t adapt, you may not be part of that Future–“3D Image-Guided Computer-Aided Implant Surgery”. It may become untenable to place implants in the next year without Pre-operative planning using 3D CT scan.

• Anonymous August 19th, 2006

  
  

  I agree that Dental CT scan is a helpful diagnostic tool…. but standard of care???

• Bert Koeman August 27th, 2006

  
  

  Excellent to have different 3D options.

• Anonymous September 7th, 2006

  
  

  Well, we don’t expect critics to a 3D Image-Guided Surgery from a Radio Diagnostic Center….

  BMP-2? Which was the topic?

• Jeffery B Wheaton DDS,MD November 20th, 2007

  
  

  I just jumped on the 3-D CT bandwagon. I year ago I argued that it is not the standard of care. I still believe that to be true primarily because of the prohibitive cost of these units to a lot of practices. However, having seen the capabilities and, most imprtantly the benefits to patients, I do believe it is a matter of time before they will be considered the standard of care. In 5-10 years it will be the only way of doing implant therapy. However, before that time there will need to be some industry consolidation, standardization, and a decline in prices.

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