Kerr Dental.

Kerr's company page says brothers Robert and John Kerr founded the firm in 1891 as The Detroit Dental Manufacturing Company, that exports to Europe began as early as 1893, and that the name became The Kerr Manufacturing Company in 1939. The same page says Kerr is an operating company of Envista Holdings Corporation. Worldwide and North America headquarters are printed at 200 S Kraemer Blvd, Building E, Brea, CA 92821. The US site prints the phone 1-800-537-7123 and the same Brea address.

The company page lists manufacturing in Orange, Morrisburg, Mexicali, Merida, Scafati, and Jicin, and an EMEA office at Balz Zimmermann-Strasse 7, CH-8302 Kloten, Switzerland, with phone 00800 30 32 30 32. Acquisitions named on that page include Demetron curing lights in 1993, Spofa Dental in 2003, Pentron Clinical in 2010, and Hawe Neos in 2011. A 2021 Kerr release says the company joined Envista in 2019.

That 2021 release, quoting then president Jim McGillivary, names OptiBond adhesives built on a GPDM monomer, SimpliShade composites described as covering 16 VITA classical shades with three shades, SonicFill, ZenFlex NiTi files, and the TotalCare infection-prevention line including CaviWipes and CaviCide. The current US homepage also features ZenFlex RT retreatment files, ZenSeal Pro bioceramic sealer, CaviWipes Clear, and the Demi Pro curing light. Product generations change. Read the IFU on the box you receive.

Kerr's own pages call some of these products a gold standard or a category creator, including the claim that Kerr put the K in K-file. Those are the company's words. This profile lists the names and the dates and does not treat the slogans as independent rankings. A curing light, a file, and a wipe are three different purchases. The company page groups the catalog as restoratives, endodontics, burs, prevention, and laboratory products. Burs from the KaVo Kerr carbide line named in the 2021 release are rotary instruments, not OptiBond. TotalCare wipes are for hard nonporous surfaces. The release says a later CaviWipes generation was positioned against an EPA emerging-viral-pathogen claim. Read the current label for contact time and for which organisms are listed, and do not copy a 2021 sentence onto a new canister.

Kerr suits a practice buying adhesives, composites, files, or surface disinfectants from the Envista consumables company. Adhesives are compared on the dental adhesive guide.

Curing lights, files, and composites have their own guides: the curing light guide, the rotary file guide, and the universal composite guide.

A Brea headquarters does not mean every syringe is filled in Brea. The company page lists plants in North America, Mexico, Italy, and the Czech Republic. Ask the IFU for the site that applies to the lot.

Cements and impression materials are separate from OptiBond. See the resin cement guide and the alginate guide when those are the purchase.

Use 200 S Kraemer Blvd, Building E, Brea, CA 92821, and 1-800-537-7123 for North America, as printed on Kerr's pages. EMEA service is the Kloten address and 00800 30 32 30 32.

Hawe Neos preventive accessories, Spofa, and Pentron are historic acquisitions. Reorder by the current Kerr reference, not by the old company name on a photographed box.