Coltene.

Coltène/Whaledent AG lists Feldwiesenstrasse 20, 9450 Altstätten, Switzerland, on the legal imprint, with director Dominik Arnold and phone +41 71 757 53 00. A German entity, Coltène/Whaledent GmbH + Co. KG, is in Langenau. The about page says dental reporting sat inside Gurit until 2006, the health-care division listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange on June 23, 2006 as Medisize, and the company renamed itself COLTENE Holding AG on February 27, 2008 after selling the non-dental medical business.

The company page splits the catalog into endodontics, restorative filling, prosthetics and impression materials, treatment aids, infection control, and rotary instruments. That is a wide consumable line, not a dental chair company. The infection-control brochure adds Hygenic dams and ROEKO masks and bibs, and it places SciCan ultrasonic cleaners and autoclaves in the same infection-control story.

The 2018 acquisition note says SciCan and Micro-Mega closed on October 10, 2018, and that the group then employed about 1,400 people. Use that headcount as a 2018 figure. A preservation brochure shows ParaPost diameters from 0.90 mm upward and ParaCore as a dual-cure core and cement. GuttaFlow is named as an obturation material in that brochure. Confirm the current SKU. Names move.

COLTENE describes its approach as Upgrade Dentistry. That is a slogan. The buying facts are the plant, the brand on the box, and whether the item is a dam, a post, a file, or an autoclave.

COLTENE suits a general practice that isolates with a dam, restores with adhesives and composites, and may obturate with the group's endodontic materials. The dam guide, the file guide, and the ultrasonic cleaner guide split those purchases. SciCan is the equipment side after 2018.

Labs see impression materials and posts more than dams. A ParaPost case is a dentist-lab conversation about which fiber or metal post the canal will accept.

A surgery center buying only an autoclave should ask for SciCan, not for a Hygenic clamp.

Hygenic dams compete with other sheets, including non-latex dams from Cranberry. Micro-Mega files compete with FKG and other NiTi systems. Do not put a Micro-Mega file on a motor preset copied from a different brand.

SciCan sterilizers compete with other autoclaves in the cleaner and sterilizer guides. COLTENE the consumable company and SciCan the equipment brand now share an owner. Service contracts may still name SciCan.

ParaCore is a core composite. It is not a bulk-fill restorative for a Class II box unless the indication says so. Read the working times in the brochure before you treat it as a universal composite.

Order by brand inside the group. Hygenic, ROEKO, SciCan, Micro-Mega, and ParaPost do not share one instruction sheet. Your dealer may invoice all of them as COLTENE.

The Altstätten phone is the Swiss operator. U.S. customers usually buy through a subsidiary or dealer. Ask who supports a dam clamp versus who services an autoclave. Those are different trucks.

The 1,400-employee figure is from the 2018 release. It is not a current warranty. Nothing reviewed here states a free training requirement. Dam technique is still something the team has to practice.