Zest Dental Solutions.

Zest's about page starts the story in 1972 in a small dental laboratory in San Diego. Max Zuest developed an attachment because overdentures were failing for his dentist customers. In 1977 his son Paul joined, the company became Zest Anchors, and the ZAAG attachment was released for major implant systems. A larger plant in Escondido followed. Paul Zuest and Scott Mullaly then developed LOCATOR, sold from 2001. The Jordan Group acquired Zest Anchors in late 2009.

The name Zest Dental Solutions dates to an August 2016 release, when Zest Anchors, Danville Materials, and Perioscopy were gathered under one name and the company described a move into a Carlsbad headquarters. The current about page says Zest is a portfolio company of BC Partners and that Tom Stratton is president and CEO. A February 2018 BC Partners release announced an agreement to buy Zest from Avista Capital Partners. The about page is the later statement of ownership. Use it, and ask counsel if a deal file needs the 2018 closing document.

The contact page lists 2875 Loker Avenue East, Carlsbad, California 92010, phone 800-262-2310, weekdays 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific. The about page also mentions satellite operations in Anaheim and Escondido. Product scope on that page is removable and fixed implant restorations, narrow-diameter implants, and materials for processing overdentures, plus the Danville and Iveri acquisitions.

An overdenture still needs a denture base. LOCATOR is the attachment between the implant and the prosthesis. The acrylic is a different purchase. Sending a lab a LOCATOR abutment without saying which implant platform it matches is the usual delay. Zest's claim is that many implant makers have a LOCATOR version. Your implant's chart is the check.

Zest suits a general dentist or prosthodontist restoring implant overdentures, and a lab that processes those attachments. Narrow-diameter implants are a Zest system of their own on the about page. They are not a substitute for a standard-diameter implant from Straumann or Nobel Biocare unless the plan called for the narrow Zest implant.

The denture acrylic guide is linked because the prosthesis base is a separate choice from the attachment. A heat-cure base and a chairside hard reline do different jobs. LOCATOR males and the processing inserts are Zest parts inside that denture.

Offices that only want whitening or a Danville microetcher are buying the acquired lines, not a LOCATOR. Say which catalog you mean.

Other attachment systems exist. This page does not rank them. The comparison that changes the order is whether your implant already has a LOCATOR-compatible abutment from the implant maker or whether you must use Zest's own abutment. The about page's 'more than 100 manufacturers' sentence is the reason to open the chart, not a reason to skip it.

LOCATOR R-Tx is the removable generation named in 2016. LOCATOR F-Tx was described then as fixed. A patient who can remove the denture is not a candidate for a fixed attachment just because both names say LOCATOR. Read the system.

Narrow-diameter implants from Zest compete with other narrow implants. They do not make a LOCATOR attachment optional. The attachment and the implant are two lines on the same surgical plan.

Stock the males and the processing components for the system you use, R-Tx or the earlier LOCATOR, and do not assume the nylon inserts interchange. Ask Zest which insert retention levels are current. The Carlsbad phone line is the support path on the contact page, including what the site calls real-time in-clinic help.

Distribution is mixed. The 2016 release said global distribution through OEMs and dealers plus a domestic retail path for the anchors portfolio. Your dealer may invoice you, or Zest may. Warranty language was not in the pages reviewed. Get it for the abutment and for the insert separately.

Danville equipment and Iveri whitening have their own instructions. A Perioscopy device is not sterile-processed like a LOCATOR male. Keep the manuals apart.