Neodent Spain and Neodent Portugal join forces as Instradent

Lisbon/Madrid, October 1st, 2014: Neodent, the leading South American dental implant company, announced today that the subsidiaries in Spain and Portugal will join forces on January 1st 2015 to serve customers as Instradent Iberia SL.

The main objectives of the combination are to strengthen the Neodent brand in Iberia, to increase efficiencies between the countries and the Brazilian headquarters, and to delivering outstanding service to customers. Instradent Iberia will maintain its Spanish office in Madrid and will open a new office for Portugal in Lagoas Park/ Porto Salvo.

Matthias Schupp, Executive Vice President Neodent, noted: "Neodent products have grown considerably in both countries. By combining the two subsidiaries, we will become even stronger, strengthening our professional back office and delivering first class service to customers".

Dr Sandro Matter, Executive Vice President Instradent, stated: "In addition to offering outstanding product quality, Instradent's goal is to make life easier for customers".

Although the two entities will operate separately for the remainder of this year, Mr Jorge Herrera, Neodent Director in Spain, will also lead the Sales and Marketing activities for Portugal from October 1st 2014.

About Neodent

Founded in 1993, Neodent is Latin America's leading dental implant company. It was the first Brazilian company in the implant sector to receive certification from the Ministry of Health. The company opened its own premises in Curitiba in 1998, where its headquarters and a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility are located. Neodent employs more than 900 employees, operates more than 21 branches in Brazil and works with a wide network of distributors positioning the company as the market leader in the LATAM region.

Neodent also has subsidiaries and distributors in other geographies. It places considerable importance on education and training with the aim of ensuring quality treatment standards and patient care. It does this through the ILAPEO (The Latin American Institute of Dental Research and Education), one of the largest dedicated implant training centers in the world, offering courses to thousands of participants from all over the world each year.

About Instradent

With a dedicated team at its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, Instradent was established in 2014 as a business platform to drive and manage the distribution and internationalization of specific brands for tooth replacement solutions, offering high quality, attractively-priced products, which are very popular in domestic and regional markets. Instradent's goal is tomake them available to dental professionals internationally through its own growing network. Instradent is a lean organization, set-up to deliver superior quality at highly competitive prices and maximum customer convenience. Instradent - Bright choice. Bright smiles.