Headquarters: Ardmore
Key executives: Dr. Ronald A. Bulard, chairman and co-founder; Dr. E.S. Gillespie, co-founder and executive vice president; James Clark, president and chief executive officer; Stephen J. Hadwin, executive vice president and director of engineering and manufacturing; Nathan Verner, chief financial officer; Doretta Anderson, vice president of marketing and sales; and John Roderick, vice president of operations and human resources.

Employees: 130, including 120 in Ardmore.
Products: IMTEC produces more than 600 dental specialty products, including dental implants, surgical tools, orthodontic implants, oral hygiene items, and bone and tissue regeneration products. The company’s primary product is a patented 1.8 millimeter “Sendax MDI” dental implant that’s used mainly for stabilization of dentures.

Background: The company was co-founded in Ardmore in 1990 by Bulard and Gillespie with an original concept of a dental implant designed to replace missing teeth. IMTEC has grown to offer more than600 dental products.

It has expanded its presence worldwide with sales and marketing offices in Frankfurt, Germany; Toronto; Cuernavaca, Mexico; and London. The company trains more than 2,500 doctors each year in the use of its products and offers six two-day courses annually at the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry where 300 to 400 doctors from around the world are trained.

The company sells its products to oral surgeons, periodontists and prosthodontists, as well as general dentists. Its made-in-Ardmore products ar sold in 84 countries. IMTEC recently broke ground on a 20,000-square-foot building that will expand its presence in Ardmore,

“The Sendax MDI mini dental implant drives our company, and this remarkable product has changed the lives of thousands of persons,” Clark said. “We’re very excited about the future, especially in view of the fact that we will launch a new CT scan machine for oral surgeons and imaging centers this summer that we think will dramatically impact the market. The future is very bright for this Ardmore company.”

Business Writer Jim Stafford