Press / News

Ultradent Products, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of high-tech dental materials, is announcing acquisition of Medicinos Linija UAB, known globally as "i-dental," a renowned manufacturer and distributer of dental products headquartered in Siauliai, Lithuania.

The addition of i-dental’s network and infrastructure will assist Ultradent’s ability to better serve dentists throughout the world. With i-dental as the company’s most recent acquisition, Ultradent now has offices and subsidiaries in 12 countries.

“With the help of the talented team members of i-dental, Ultradent will be able to empower more clinicians to provide better care for their patients,” says Ultradent President and CEO Dirk Jeffs. “Ultradent has a longstanding connection with i-dental and founder Gintaras Dapkus, whom we met 25 years ago when he attended one of our educational events. Both companies are driven by a shared mission—the mutual admiration, innovative spirit, and vision between Ultradent and i-dental make this a seamless partnership that will benefit oral health globally.”

Founded in 1992 by Gintaras Dapkus, i-dental began as a dental supply company and transitioned into a manufacturer of dental materials—top products include composites, glass ionomers, etchants, liners, and prophy paste. i-dental is ISO certified and has recently passed an MDR audit. Dapkus will remain minority owner and active i-dental management. “I am thrilled about this new chapter for i-dental, Ultradent, and oral health care providers around the world" says Dapkus. "This partnership opens up incredible opportunities for innovation, growth, and improving patient care.”

***

About Ultradent Products, Inc.

Ultradent Products, Inc., is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-tech dental materials, devices, and instruments worldwide. Ultradent’s vision is to improve oral health globally. Ultradent also works to improve the quality of life and health of individuals through financial and charitable programs. For more information about Ultradent, call 800.552.5512, visit ultradent.com or find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

About i-dental

i-dental, founded in 1992 in Šiauliai, Lithuania, is a leading manufacturer of innovative medical devices, dental materials, and cosmetics, recognized for its ISO 13485 certified quality management system and CE marked products. The company exports to over 80 countries, prioritizing high-quality, user-friendly products that meet international standards and customer needs. Learn more at www.i-dental.lt.

###

Ultradent proudly announces the acquisition of Ease-In-Shields™ from ViewMax Solutions, LLC. Ease-In-Shields provides unique eye protection for laser and curing light users, with their double patented shape, allowing the shields to fit into most loupe and eyewear shapes for maximum safety.

Of the Ease-in-Shield acquisition, Scot Andersen, Ultradent’s Vice-President of Business Development, said, “After years of working with ViewMax Solutions LLC, we’re pleased to announce the acquisition of their product, Ease-In-Shields™. We’re excited to continue working in conjunction with the founders to promote Ease-In-Shields more broadly in the dental space.”

Ease-In-Shields’ polycarbonate construction makes them both light and strong, less prone to fogging, and unlike other laser filter inserts in the market, offering total protective coverage as certified by Laservision USA’s Safety Laboratories.

The Ease-In-Shields won the prestigious 2017 Cellerant “Best of Class” Technology award, thanks to the unprecedented protection they offer and their unique benefits, such as quick and hygienic placement and removal from loupes without having to remove eyewear from the face. Ease-In-Shields’ various options afford eye protection for different types of laser wavelengths and accommodate many facial sizes.

***

About Ultradent Products, Inc.

Ultradent Products, Inc., is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-tech dental materials, devices, and instruments worldwide. Ultradent’s vision is to improve oral health globally. Ultradent also works to improve the quality of life and health of individuals through financial and charitable programs. For more information about Ultradent, call 800.552.5512 or visit ultradent.com or find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

###

Dr. Dan Fischer, founder and CEO emeritus of South Jordan–based Ultradent Products, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high-tech dental materials and equipment, was recently named as one of two individuals in the country inducted into the national dental publication Incisal Edge Magazine’s annual “Dental Innovators Hall of Fame.” Dr. Fischer is called “the most prolific American dental inventor over the last 30 years,” as well as applauded for the global power and legacy of his "positive influence, clinical achievement, ingenuity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and giving.”

Edward Kobesky of Incisal Edge says, “Every year, there’s a spirited discussion (or argument, depending on whom you talk to) among the Incisal Edge team over potential Hall of Fame candidates. This year, one name prompted no dissent: Dr. Dan Fischer.” He continues, “The internationally recognized doctor built his highly successful company, Ultradent, founded in 1978, from a basement operation to a global powerhouse selling more than 550 products worldwide (including disposables, curing lights, lasers, composites and bonding, teeth whitening, and more).”

He continues, saying that during an audit of dental patents conducted by the publication in 2018, Dr. Fischer’s name “appeared on 1.5 percent of all dental patents, topped only by the likes of 3M, whose roughly $32 billion annual revenue is 45 times that of Ultradent. Proof that great ideas can move mountains.”

The piece goes on to tell the remarkable story of Ultradent’s founding, and how over the last 45 years, it has stayed committed to its core values and ethics, as well as how it continues to operate as a proud USA manufacturer, making 95% of what it sells right here in South Jordan. Ultradent sells the majority of its award-winning products abroad (in 130 countries and counting), in what Dr. Fischer famously deems “the opposite of outsourcing.”

Some of Ultradent’s most notable products include Opalescence™ teeth whitening, the VALO™ curing light family, its variety of Ultrapak™ knitted cord offerings, Peak™ Universal Bond adhesive solution, Ultra-Etch™ etchant, and the Gemini™ dual-wavelength diode laser.

Kobesky adds, “We proudly welcome him into our Hall of Fame—a living legend who’s still teaching dental students, and still a passionate hands-on R&D man after 46 years at the company he built.”

Click here to read Incisal Edge’s Hall of Fame induction piece dedicated to honoring Dr. Fischer’s many achievements, his code of ethics, and his many philosophies which have resulted in his and Ultradent’s remarkable legacy.

***

About Ultradent Products, Inc.

Ultradent Products, Inc., is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-tech dental materials, devices, and instruments worldwide. Ultradent’s vision is to improve oral health globally. Ultradent also works to improve the quality of life and health of individuals through financial and charitable programs. For more information about Ultradent, call 800.552.5512 or visit ultradent.com or find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

###