Astra Tech - Dental Implants and Medical Devices

LoFric Sense Astra Tech’s new urinary catheter for women has been selected as one of 31 nominees (out of some 200 entries) to the Design S award, the Swedish design award that celebrates the best examples of Swedish design. The winners will be presented on 8 June 2010.

Astra Tech, a market leader in the field of implant dentistry, announces their strategic alliance with Dental Wings, the Canadian-based provider of CAD/CAM solutions with specialized development of 3D scanners, beginning in early 2010. As a result, Dental Wings users worldwide will have the ability to remotely transfer scans to Astra Tech’s design and manufacturing centers for the production of Atlantis™ patient-specific abutments for all major implant systems.

Press information 4 June 2008
“Follow-up research among patients consistently shows a marginal bone level reduction of just 0.4 mm or less for Astra Tech dental implants, a performance indicator at least three times superior to the industry norm. The findings involve hundreds of individual cases and are remarkable in their consistency,” says Lyndon Cooper, Professor of Dentistry in the Department of Prosthodontics at the University of North Carolina, who has performed one of the studies.

3M ESPE and Astra Tech AB, a leader and innovator in the dental implant industry, announce a global partnership to provide Astra Tech’s Atlantis™ patient-specific abutments to 3M ESPE Lava™ customers. The two companies have developed an interface which will enable the Lava™ Scan ST Design System to communicate directly with Astra Tech’s Atlantis technology.

Press release, December 11, 2007
The Swedish medical device company Astra Tech, a subsidiary of AstraZeneca, continues expanding on the dental implant market by acquiring its Japanese distributor, Denics International Co. Ltd., with revenues of USD 30 million in 2006.

27. September 2007
Die schwedische medizintechnische Firma Astra Tech AB, eine Tochtergesellschaft der AstraZeneca, erwarb das US Dental Unternehmen Atlantis Components Inc. für USD 71 Mio (etwa SEK 500 MIO). Dieser Geschäftsabschluss ist Teil der Astra Tech Expansions-Strategie.