DENTSPLY was founded in 1899 as a company that made and sold dental equipment and materials, including artificial teeth, and for over a century it has offered innovative, high quality, economical dental products worthy of its motto "First in Dentistry." In recent years it absorbed Friadent and Degussa's dental division (DeguDent), and has also taken over AstraZeneca's local anesthetic business, making inroads into the field of pharmaceuticals, and has now become the world's largest manufactures and seller in the dental industry. Its wide variety of products, supplied from manufacturing bases in 22 countries, are distributed in 120 countries. ● Company Name: DENTSPLY International Inc. ● No. of Employees: 7,700 (as of Dec.31.2004) ● Sales: $1.71 bio. (at time of consolidated statement for Dec.31.2005) ● Website: http://www.dentsply.com

Trubyte　 Artificial teeth and denture base material Ceramco　 Dental ceramics and dental equipment Caulk Restoratives Tulsa Endodontics Professional Preventives, ultrasonic scalers DeguDent Precious metal dental alloys Maillefer Endodontics VDW Endodontics DeTrey Restoratives Friadent Implants (Friadent and Ankylos)