Ritter Implants

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Ritter Implants

Type	Private company
ISIN	🆔
Industry	Dental Implants and Dental Prosthetics
Founded 📆	2010
Founder 👔
Headquarters 🏙️	Biberach, Germany
Area served 🗺️	Worldwide
Key people	Basil Battah (CEO)
Products 📟	Dental implants, implant abutments, prosthetics, CAD/CAM prosthetics (abutments, crowns, bridges, overdenture bars), dental surgical tools and instruments, components for guided surgery dental drills training and education for dental professionals
Members
Number of employees	150+
Parent	Ritter Concept GmbH
🌐 Website	www.ritterimplants.com
📇 Address
📞 telephone

Ritter Implants is an international dental implant and prosthetics manufacturing company based in Biberach, Germany. The company is most well known for its dental implants, dental abutments, and CAD/CAM dentistry solutions.

Ritter Implants GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2010 as a subdivision of Ritter Concept GmbH, which has been specializing in the production of dental engines and dental chairs for over 130 years.

The distribution and customer service center for both Ritter Concept and Ritter Implants is operated by the Ritter Holding Company Spfm LP, located in San Antonio, Texas. The company has more than 150 employees worldwide.

History

1880s - 1890s

Ritter was originally founded in 1887 in Rochester, NY by German-born entrepreneur Frank Ritter (1844 – 1915).

The first two years were concentrated on the development and manufacturing of a double-telescopic oil-pump-chair. In 1889 Frank Ritter succeeded in marketing the “Columbia” dental chair which was designed applying new construction methods and considered superior quality in all aspects. This novel chair was ahead of its time at the end of the 19th century, offering virtually all the possibilities of positioning found in today’s modern dental chairs. These chairs were famous in their time, and in 1893 one of the Ritter dental chair models was featured at the World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

1900 - 1930s

The fast progress of the dental industry in the early 20th century catalyzed the rapidly increasing use of more technical tools by dentists in their work. Surgical procedures were carried out using a series of individual mechanical and electrical apparatuses, and at this point Ritter observed that the industry was in need of an apparatus that combined all components into a single apparatus.

In 1917 Ritter’s response to this demand came in the form of the first Ritter “Unit.” It united all individual apparatuses and instruments frequently used during operations into a single, compact “work center,” including a switch panel, drilling machine, cuspidor, saliva ejector (suction), suspension tray table, air and water syringe, low voltage instruments and a bunsen burner. Thanks to this new development, dental surgeries were able for the first time to be carried out ergonomically, marking a new age for the field, and the Ritter “Unit” has maintained its reputation through the present day. Three years after the Ritter “Unit” was released to the market, a dental x-ray component was added, providing dentists with the additional advantage of dental x-ray-diagnostics.

In 1924 Ritter Dental Company formed a partial merger with the Arnold Biber dental company of Germany. Ritter-Biber AG began its operations with more than 1,000 employees, but was not long thereafter hit by the economic crisis of the 1920’s, driving the company to sell its equipment manufacturing division.

1950s - 1980s

In 1957 Ritter Rochester expanded by acquiring the Liebel-Flarsheim Company, a manufacturer of operating tables, electro-surgical apparatuses, and electrovalves. Apart from its dental activities, this was an important step for Ritter and provided the company with a door into the general medical industry’s market.

In 1959 Ritter Rochester expanded further with the acquisition of Castle Co., a Rochester-based company producing lamps and large-volume sterilizers.

In 1962 Ritter built its own semi-automatic varnishing department. In that same year, it also celebrated its 75th anniversary.

In 1964 Ritter acquired Kerr-Manufacturing Company of Detroit, and in 1965 merged with Pfaudler-Permutit to form the Ritter-Pfaudler-Corporation. During the following two years, the newly founded Ritter-Pfaudler-Corporation acquired several other companies and grew enormously. The most notable was the Nalge Company of Rochester, NY, which specialized in the production of repository plastics for medical laboratories and hospitals.

In 1968 Ritter-Pfaudler merged with a company called Taylor Instrument Co. The new organization was called Sybron Corp., and was effectively a holding company for the diversified subsidiaries. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Sybron bought and sold numerous companies that complemented the varying business strategies. By the mid-1980s, Sybron encompassed a diversified group of nearly 20 companies, most of which were engaged in the manufacturing of various dental, laboratory, and specialty industrial products. The organization's sales and assets rapidly ballooned and Sybron became a Fortune 500 company. Its financial performance, however, began to wane, and by the mid-1980s Sybron had become bloated and inefficient.

In 1985 Ritter was sold by the American Sybron Group. Ritter became completely independent as a German enterprise and continued its activities on the dental market. In 1986 the legal title of Ritter AG was changed to Ritter GmbH Dentaleinrichtungen.

In 1986, the new Ritter GmbH successfully presented the 190-Series dental chair at the International Dental Show in Cologne, Germany. The new products of this series, the ‘Dialog’ dentist’s unit and the ‘Profil’ patient’s chair, were appealing due to their modern design, function, and pricing.

1990s - present

In 1996, bankruptcy proceedings were instituted, and Ritter was newly founded under the name Ritter IBW Dentalsysteme GmbH, after which it moved to Zwönitz, a small town in the southeastern German state of Saxony. The managing director was Hans Wuenschel, who became exclusive owner of the newly founded company. Production was transferred from Karlsruhe to Zwönitz, whereas service and support remained in Karlsruhe. Wuenschel transferred his company shares in 1998 to IBW Holding GmbH.

After a reorganization in September 2018, Ritter is now operating as two sister companies: Ritter Concept GmbH and Ritter Implants GmbH & Co KG. Ritter Concept specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of dental engines, accessories, and dental chairs, while Ritter Implants specializes in dental implants, dental prosthetics, and CAD/CAM dentistry solutions. As of 2018 both companies are operating under the new holding company Spfm LP.

In 2019 Ritter Implants joined alliances with Edison Medical, a dental implant system manufacturer with production based in Biberach an der Riß, Germany. Edison Medical is known for its production of specialized implant dentistry supplies designed for use with more than 70 of the market’s leading dental implant systems. Their production includes dental implants, dental abutments, dental surgical tools/instruments, and CAD/CAM system components.

Reception

Ritter Implants is considered one of the sturdiest and most reliable implant brands on the market, showing significantly less early failure rate than many of its competitors. This reputation has led them to be used as a foundation across multiple published scientific studies exploring topics such as implant-supported overdentures and intraoral optical scanner accuracy. Ritter Implants has been additionally featured in a variety of case studies examining topics including osseodensification and implant placement, immediate extraction with ridge preservation, posterior reconstruction, All-on-6 guided surgery, and many more.

Since Ritter Implants’ inception, it has received notable mention for its QSI two-piece spiral implants, TFI twin fissure implants, and MCI mono-compress one-piece implants. In 2013 Ritter released the Ritter Implant Kit and Crown Program at the American Dental Association’s annual Session in New Orleans, which was positively received by dental professionals who praised the system’s simplicity, practicality, and qualitative results that were comparable with those of larger implant system names. In 2015, Ritter was named one of the top eight implant systems by Dentistry Today.

Products

Ritter Implants together with Edison Medical produce an extensive range of dental implants, abutments, prosthetics, CAD/CAM system components, and surgical tools and instruments. All of their products are manufactured from the highest grade materials, including titanium, stainless steel, zirconia and PEEK. As a result of the recent alliance with Edison Medical, Ritter’s portfolio now extends beyond its original reach of implant system interchangeability and can be used with dozens of major implant system brands.

References

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