Medit.

Medit's own account of the i500 says the company was founded in 2000 as a metrology firm for industrial scanning, led by CEO Minho Chang, and entered dentistry with the Identica Blue lab scanner in 2013, described there as a blue-light lab scanner. The Hybrid lab scanner followed. The i500 was the first intraoral scanner in that account. A 25-year note dated 15 April 2025 says the company was founded in 2000, confirms the 2013 lab scanner, and lists later intraoral models i700, i700 wireless, i600, i900, and i900 classic.

An April 2022 Medit release from Seoul and Long Beach announced the i700 wireless. It says one battery provides about one hour of continuous scanning and about eight hours of standby, that the camera captures up to 70 frames per second, and that the wand has a reversible tip and a UV-C LED. Software named in the release is Medit Link, with apps including Medit Design, Smile Design, Ortho Simulation, and Model Builder. The release says Medit has been headquartered in Seoul since 2000, with representatives in the Americas and Europe and distributors in more than 100 countries.

A Korea Times report in December 2022 said MBK Partners agreed to acquire Medit from Unison Capital, that founder Jang Min-ho and related parties would reinvest and remain investors, and that the firm had branches in the United States, Germany, and China. The report's price and market-share figures are the newspaper's. This profile does not repeat them as Medit's own product specifications. Open file formats are mentioned on Medit's 25-year page as the way lab scans move into other CAD software.

A lab scanner and an intraoral scanner solve different jobs. Identica and the T-series sit in the lab. The i-series sits in the operatory. Software updates, which Medit emphasizes, do not change the tip sterilization method printed for the wand you own. The 25-year note says open file formats let lab scans move into other CAD programs, which is why a lab can keep its design software when it adds a Medit scanner. Confirm the formats with the lab before you retire the previous scanner. The i500 story page says Minho Chang studied at MIT and at a Korean research institute before founding the metrology company. That biography explains the 2000 start. It does not set the accuracy number for an i900. Use the current specification sheet for the wand on the quote, and ask whether tips are autoclavable for that generation.

Medit suits a practice buying an intraoral scanner with the company's Link software, or a lab buying a T-series scanner. Intraoral scanners are compared on the intraoral scanner guide.

Open export, which Medit highlights, still has to match the design software the lab uses. Ask for the file types before you switch scanners.

The i500, i700, and i900 are different hardware. Battery and wireless specs from the 2022 i700 wireless release do not describe a corded i500.

Lab scanners from 2013 onward stay on the bench. Do not quote an Identica as an operatory wand.

The 2022 release says the company has been based in Seoul since 2000 and sells through distributors in more than 100 countries, with representatives in the Americas and Europe. The Long Beach dateline on that release is a US contact point for the announcement, not a factory address.

Ownership changed in the 2022 MBK agreement described by the Korea Times. Warranty should name the current Medit entity on the invoice.