Shofu Dental.

Shofu Inc. says it was established on May 15, 1922, in Kyoto by Kajo Shofu III, a ceramics maker, after work to produce porcelain teeth in Japan. The headquarters address is 11 Kamitakamatsu-cho, Fukuine, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0983. The corporate history says a U.S. company, Shofu Dental Corporation, was established in 1971. The U.S. about page says that office moved from Menlo Park, California, to San Marcos, California, in September 2001. The parent is a public company. The history table records a Tokyo Stock Exchange listing that reached the First Section in 2012.

The investor site organizes chairside products by step. Diamonds remove caries. Beautifil II fills as a packable paste. Beautifil Flow Plus X fills as a flowable. BeautiLink SA cements a prosthesis. Super-Snap and related abrasives polish. All of the filling and cement examples on that page are tied to S-PRG filler, which is Shofu's name for the filler technology. The page does not say every Shofu abrasive contains that filler.

Laboratory work is the older half of the company. Porcelain teeth were the founding product. Current names on the same overview include Vintage Art Universal stain and Ceramage Up hard resin. Hybrid resin teeth under the Endura name were recognized by Japanese health insurance in 1988, according to the history table. A U.S. dentist ordering Super-Snap discs is not ordering Endura teeth unless the lab slip says so.

Affiliates listed in the history include Germany in 1978, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Shanghai companies, India, and Brazil. The U.S. page's phrases about '99 years' and '41 years in America' are older marketing copy. The dated history is 1922 and a 1971 U.S. subsidiary. Use those dates.

Shofu suits a restorative practice that wants a packable and a flowable from one filler story, and a laboratory that finishes ceramics and hard resin. Hygienists are not the main buyer unless the office polishes existing composites with Super-Snap. The universal composite guide and the flowable guide are the chairside comparisons.

U.S. orders go through Shofu Dental Corporation in San Marcos for the Americas business the U.S. page describes. The manufacturer of record for the parent is Kyoto. Check the box for the legal manufacturer if your compliance file requires it.

A clinic standardizing only a universal bonding agent from another company can still use Super-Snap. Polishers do not have to match the composite brand. They do have to match the material you are polishing, which is why Glossmaster ZR is named separately for zirconia-oriented finishing.

Pulpdent describes ACTIVA with a bioactive claim and calcium, phosphate, and fluoride. Shofu describes Beautifil with S-PRG filler. Those are different technical stories. Neither sentence tells you which syringe handles better in a Class II box. Place both against the composite guide.

Super-Snap is an abrasive sequence, not a bur. Meisinger and SS White sell the diamonds and carbides that cut the tooth before Shofu's discs refine it. Do not substitute a coarse Super-Snap disc for a carbide that opens the prep.

Vintage stains and Ceramage are lab products. They compete with other ceramic systems, not with a chairside flowable.

Order Beautifil II and Beautifil Flow Plus X as different viscosities. The cement is BeautiLink SA. Mixing the names on a purchase order is a common error because they share the Beautifil root. Confirm shades and whether your curing light matches the instructions.

Super-Snap discs are a system with grits. Replace the mandrel and the disc together if the instructions say the disc is single-patient. This profile did not restate a reuse rule because the grit chart should be read from the current Shofu instructions, not from memory.

The Kyoto company publishes ISO 14001 in the history table for 2002 and CE marking in 1997. Those are system dates, not a warranty on a syringe. Ask San Marcos for the U.S. shelf-life and return policy.