DMG America.

DMG America's company page says Ernst Muhlbauer founded DMG, Dental Material Gesellschaft, in Hamburg in 1963 to manufacture dental materials. A Dentaltown interview with the company dates that founding to 2 August 1963 and says the first product was a silicate cement. The milestones page on dmg-dental.com says later decades added sealed amalgam capsules, composites, a compomer patent, and, in the 1974-1990 window, Luxatemp as a cartridge temporary crown-and-bridge material.

The same milestones page says Luxatemp became a US market leader in the mid-1990s, that DMG received an ISO certification it describes as a first for the dental industry, and that Honigum impression material introduced a rheologically active matrix. Later entries name PermaCem as a cartridge cement, Icon for caries infiltration without drilling, LuxaPost, and the DentaMile and LuxaPrint 3D-printing products. Those priority claims are DMG's wording.

The US company page says Zenith Dental was established in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1982, formed a partnership with DMG, and in 2008 rebranded as DMG America. It says North American customers now buy the Hamburg-developed materials through that US business. The 2024-2025 US catalog says products are produced and certified in Hamburg.

Temporary materials, impression materials, caries-infiltration resin, and 3D-printing resins solve different problems. Luxatemp is a bis-acryl temporary in the US catalog. Icon is the infiltration product on the milestones list. LuxaPrint resins are for printing. Do not substitute one cartridge for another because they share the DMG name. The US catalog's Luxatemp chapter lists shades such as A1, A2, A3, and bleach light and both cartridge and smartmix syringe packs. Shade and delivery form are part of the order, not details to guess from the Luxatemp name alone.

DMG suits a practice that wants Hamburg-made temporaries, impressions, or a caries-infiltration resin, ordered in the United States through DMG America. Temporary crown materials are compared on the temporary crown and bridge guide.

Inlay and onlay temporaries have their own guide at temporary inlay and onlay materials. Core build-ups, including DMG core products such as LuxaCore when that is the SKU, sit with the core composite guide.

Luxatemp is chairside and provisional. Honigum records an impression. Icon infiltrates early caries. LuxaPrint is a lab or clinic printing resin. The US catalog keeps those chapters separate, and so should the order.

Flowable composites and glass ionomers from DMG, if they are on your formulary, belong with the flowable guide and the glass ionomer guide. Printing resins are closer to the 3D printer guide.

DMG America says the materials are developed in Hamburg and that the US business took the DMG America name in 2008 after years as Zenith Dental. Ask the US catalog's customer-service path which warehouse ships the cartridge and what the shelf life is.

ISO-first and US-market-leader lines are DMG's historical claims. They do not rank a current Luxatemp shade against another brand. Compare working time, flexural-strength claims in the IFU, and the indications printed on the box.