This year, DentalEZ will celebrate 100 years of the Columbia Dentoform Teaching Solutions product line.
The line provides lifelike teaching models for dental, hygiene and veterinary students, according to a press release.
The company was founded by Columbia University Engineering School graduate Ben Spitzer in Manhattan. It was initially called the Columbia Dental and X-Ray Company and originally provided x-ray equipment for dental offices. In 1917, it added metal typodonts to its product offerings but shortly after, discontinued the x-ray equipment to focus exclusively on the dental models.
Columbia’s first typodont clients were located in local New York dental schools. Today, they are sold to teaching institutions around the world.
Columbia typodont models are designed realistically so students can practice dental and hygiene procedures as though they are working in an actual oral cavity. Columbia offers standard models and teeth for nearly every teaching situation and can customize solutions for teaching institutions, including specialty areas such as orthodontic, pediatric, and veterinary dentistry.
Columbia also offers manikins to make student practice as realistic as possible and includes adult, pediatric, and anesthesia “patients” that simulate the actual human head and mouth size. They also provide lifelike animal typodont models including cats and dogs for veterinary dental education.
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