{"id":270,"date":"2009-07-20T20:06:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T03:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/?page_id=270"},"modified":"2015-10-18T22:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T22:40:50","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/category\/about\/\" class=\"custom_section_link\">view Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Implant Mechanix Inc was founded in 1995 to support my clinical dental practice which was deeply involved in the management of complex dental implant cases.\u00a0\u00a0The company built surgical and prosthetic instruments to manage broken implant screws, obsolete implant systems where parts were unavailable, surgical misadventures where teeth could not be properly attached to the implants, innovative\u00a0instruments to make dentistry easier,\u00a0etc etc.<\/p>\n<p>The scope of the company expanded when I retired from clinical practice in 1998 and returned to moldmaking full time.\u00a0 I added CNC milling in that year, and progressively increased the\u00a0 range of capability by investing yearly in new equipment and software.\u00a0 The company is now very well positioned to participate in product development across many product categories&#8230;we have customers from such diverse fields as telecommunications, military, fire safety,\u00a0 outdoor gear, \u00a0and, of course, medicine and dentistry.<\/p>\n<p>Our focus is on design of new products and the machine shop is mainly there to support that function.\u00a0 We are a prototype and low volume production facility (a 1000 part order is a large volume for us)\u00a0but we are most happy to provide jobbing machining services where our equipment is a good fit for our customers requirements.\u00a0 Our special areas of expertise\u00a0are\u00a0small, complex\u00a0machined parts and the manufacture of plastic injection molds, both for prototyping and for production.\u00a0 Please check out our site&#8230;if you like what you see, we&#8217;d be happy to assist you with your project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>view Curriculum Vitae Implant Mechanix Inc was founded in 1995 to support my clinical dental practice which was deeply involved in the management of complex dental implant cases.\u00a0\u00a0The company built surgical and prosthetic instruments to manage broken implant screws, obsolete implant systems where parts were unavailable, surgical misadventures where teeth could not be properly attached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-270","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}