![]() These were solid products, powered by the GLYMATRIX® Core Technology that matured over 20 years, supported by many published articles. The company developed three ground-breaking soft and hard tissue regenerative products. ColBar’s plant, which was sold to Johnson & Johnson, was probably dismantled earlier. “The funds for its operation were raised from private investors and an American strategic partner, and a new plant was established in Lod, Israel. Datum Dental acquired ColBar’s intellectual property from Johnson & Johnson, and based on those, founded a new company. Arie Goldlost, who was ColBar’s VP R&D and Dr. However, they eventually decided to discontinue with it.”ĭatum Dental was founded in 2012 by ColBar veterans – Itay Itzahky, who was ColBar’s CEO, Dr. Johnson & Johnson were more interested in the medical aesthetics product when it acquired ColBar in 2006. “ColBar had two products, for the dental sector and the medical aesthetics sector. However, to-date, says Levitats, Dentsply Sirona had not focused on tissue reconstruction, which is the area it wishes to develop. The corporation has many types of implants, including the activity acquired from the Israeli company MIS. A tooth implant can be affixed within this bone – which is the most lucrative and high value business of most dental companies, including Dentsply Sirona. Collagen is a material that serves as scaffolding, on which other soft and hard tissues can take shape.ĭatum’s product is a collagen biomaterial cross-linked with sugar, which when implanted in a bone deficient jaw after a tooth extraction or injury, the bone can heal over the scaffolding and regenerate. Collagen implant procedures are well-known in aesthetic medicine. Collagen is a protein, commonly found in the human body – in skin and bones, amongst others. “Assuming that our plans materialize, this division can be a leader in the dental regenerative field within 5 to 6 years.” In addition to the plant in Lod, construction of a new plant in the Shfela area is on the cards”.ĬolBar was founded on the basis of a new technology for the production of collagen-based biomaterials. Levitats will manage Datum Dental and simultaneously serve as VP of Global Regenerative Platform at Dentsply Sirona. ![]() Currently the company employs 55 staff members in Israel and runs a manufacturing plant in Lod. Dentsply Sirona has established a division to be led by Levitats, which is expected to grow organically within Datum Dental’s area of activity, as well as through additional mergers and acquisitions. Levitats is referring to Dentsply Sirona giving him a mandate to use Datum Dental as the foundation for building the dental regenerative field within the corporation. If we avoid mistakes and continue to move forward, we will see this amazing organization we have built develop and prosper.” “The acquisition brought us to a peak, but this is only the beginning: as part of Dentsply Sirona we are on the fast track to many more peaks. “I don’t see this as closure, but rather as a milestone on the road,” says Daniel Levitats, Datum Dental’s Chief Commercial Officer who has been selected to head the company under Denstply Sirona following the acquisition. This is Dentsply Sirona’s second acquisition in Israel in recent years, following its 2016 acquisition of the dental implants company, MIS, for 375 Million USD. Based on estimates, the company’s value for the purpose of the sale is estimated at 100 Million USD. Now it has come to a full circle with the sale of Datum Dental to one of the largest dental companies in the world, Denstsply Sirona. Leveraging their purchase of ColBar’s intellectual property in the field of dental medicine, the team founded Datum Dental. But ColBar’s original management team wasn’t about to throw in the towel. A few years later, Johnson & Johnson shut ColBar’s manufacturing plant down after not finding a buyer and sent its employees home. Purchased by Johnson & Johnson for 160 Million USD in 2006, ColBar specialized in the field of collagen. Veterans in the biomed industry may remember the impressive exit, at the time, of ColBar. “The acquisition brought us to a peak, but this is only the beginning: as part of Dentsply Sirona we are on the fast track to many more peaks”.ĭaniel Levitats, General Manager, Datum Dental / Photo: Shlomi Yossef ![]() The company’s sale value was estimated at approx. The company is now being sold to the leading dental implants corporation, Dentsply Sirona. Globes article, February 19, 2021, Gali Weinrab*ĭatum Dental was founded on the basis of ColBar, which was shut down by Johnson & Johnson. DATUM DENTAL’s General Manager “WHILE LARGE SCALE CORPORATIONS WERE KEEPING A LOW PROFILE, WE EXPANDED OUR ACTIVITIES.”
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