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It is a science based company based out of Boca Raton, Florida. Tons of studies and the best surface in the industry. Great company that treats it's people well. They don't want to be the biggest but just be the best.
 


Science? Why would a dentist want a science based product? Niznick sells $45 Million a year in implants and has ZERO studies or science.This broken down company in Florida has science galore and they sell nothing. Whats that tell someone with a brain?
 




There was some posts about this co. a while back. apparently they hired three reps, and only one showed up for training. MGR is so bad, they quit before they even started. also the company had a rep, fired her, and then refused to pay her. blah blah, blah, boring shit. typical wannabe implant co.
 


Definitely a bottom of the barrell company. They are trying to build a fieldforce but unless they price their implants at or below ID, they have no shot with zero name recognition.
 


Have to agree with PP. They have a premium priced implant-around $255, but they offer no return, no warranty on prosthetic parts, no discounts, no competitive trade in, and best of all, the Drs have to pay in full with a CC before they ship out the order. No net 30, no financing, no multiple payments. From what I understand, the company has not had a sale in over 4 months-not one sale. I wonder why. You'd think the people running these pop and mom implant shops would understand they are competing against marketing machines, with unlimited budgets, the best of the best in marketing, sales people, and speakers. This company in particular believes, that their 7 man operation is going to compete and take business away from the Straumanns, Nobels, Implant Directs, and Astras of the world. Its pure arrogant fantasy. This company would be best served to license their products, either in whole or part to an existing implant company. If they have a great surface, then you know what, sell the rights to use the surface to an established implant player and get a check every single month. A company like this trying to build a sales force from scratch, and then providing 4 days of broken language (they are all foreign) product training is insane. Hey CEO-there are no problems with Straumann, Nobel or Zimmer implants, they work great, they have a full product line, their customer service is great, no problems. What is your marketing plan? How are you going to improve what the existing companies offer?
Remember Keystone? They blasted through $300M in a couple of years and accomplished nothing. They had the best and brightest MBAs and implant people behind them-they failed.
These rinky dink implant companies are amusing, they are mostly arrogant foreigners (Koreans, Spanish and French) they come here and they are going to show all us stupid American implant people how things should be done. NO SALES IN FOUR MONTHS. Thats how you get things done.
 


Add their name to the list of aborted implant companies in the US, Northern implants, Dio, Simpact, Keystone, soon to be Southern Implants, list goes on and on. I looked at their website, amazingly whoever is the marketing genius behind this one, doesn't seem to think "dental" is important to use with the name. Intra-Lock, International. Do they sell nail clippers, machine tools, dildos, how would anyone know it has anything to do with dental? Huge glaring faux pas. Geniuses. I bet the company is owned by a doctor.
 


Sounds like a lot of fear to me. This company has been around for 10 years and is making huge growth strides.

Foreign? This is an American company (Boca Raton) with American manufacturing (California).

Previous posts sound like ignorant bitter ex-employees that did not work and got cut.
 


If I'm not mistaken this is a company that generates a vast majority of its small revenue from overseas distribution, primarily in south America. Sales in the US are minimal, through a couple of small distributors one in the mid west and one in upstate NY. Most of what they sell competes with Imtec, mini implants. No full size implant presence in the US. If in fact this company has been around for 10 years and has been marketing their products in the US for that period of time, its doubtful that their sales are making "huge strides", since no one involved with implants in the US has ever heard of them-they are essentially an unknown entity. It would be more compelling if they have been around for a year or two. After ten years you'd think the average dentist would have heard of the co. Tens years later, still unknown.
If you Google them, you see they have been involved with dozens of lawsuits with Imtec implants. Maybe that is what they have been doing for the last ten years. Unfortunately that doesn't count as marketing. Who cares anyway, they are a nonstarter.
 




I stopped in their booth at the AO meeting a few months back. Because I had never heard of them, and was interested in finding out about the company. Spoke to an older guy who had trouble speaking English, and constantly was disparaging name brand implants. He was telling me how terrible Strauman implants were-definitely not something professionals do as a general rule, but made even more ridiculous because what he was talking about wasn't even true in clinical practice. He made it out like this no name implant was the solution to a problem that quite frankly didn't exist. To me that is the purest form of ignorance. I haven't seen them at a meeting since. Not sure if they are even still in business.
 


It fails to amaze me how many implant companies come and go. A few years ago you had the Asian Invasion-all the no name Korean companies, entering the market in the US. They were going to put the big boys out of business. Then you had companies like Klockner, Keystone, Southern (South African), Northern, and a handful of others like this Intra-Lock, throwing their name on the list of companies that were going to shake things up. My point of view is that in order to be successful at anything, you need to either be better, fill an unmet need or sell the same product for less money. Whether its computers, cars, or implants. None of these dozens of implant companies offers a better product, a cheaper product, or fills an unmet clinical need.
What is the incentive for a doctor to use these mom and pop implants? None that I can see. Talk to any Straumann or Nobel Dr, they have few failures, implants work fine, great customer service, they get flexible financing, companies have customer loyalty programs, list goes on and on. Absolutely no reason to change companies. By the slight chance a doctor was unhappy, then he will probably switch to another well known brand-like Nobel to Straumann, or Astra, etc. Not to some unknown, flash in the pan closed connection implant like Klockner or Intra-Lock.
It would seem that these companies should look close to home for examples of huge money loosing failures-Innova couldn't make a go of it-bought by Sybron-Sybron dumps millions behind the product, still fails, then they buy Implant Direct. Astra over the last 5 years spent tens of millions trying to get a larger foothold in the US market, failed. Now they sell the company to Dentsply. The implant market is not as easy and designing an implant, and hiring a sales force. If it were we'd all be rich.
These no name companies are really fighting a loosing battle. The large established companies will prevail. As much as Niznick is hated, he at least understood the dental implant market-offer a low priced cloned alternative, don't worry about studies-dentists only care about price. He has done what no one else has been able to-be successful as a new entry into the implant market in the US.
 


Intra-Lock has thrived while everyone else has struggled. That is why Intra-Lock is hiring while other companies are letting people go. It must be hard for some from the big implant companies to realize and come to terms that another player is emerging. That is what I see when I read some of the posts here. They will eventually come to terms with the fact that Intra-Lock is outpacing the market. There are still doctors that want a quality product backed with tons of studies that support innovation and design.
 


There are posts here on CF about Intra-Lock sales people in TX, who worked, for a few months were fired and then never paid. They had to sue the company to get paid. Company is hiring, but not paying anyone? When can I start?
 


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Intra-Lock has thrived while everyone else has struggled. That is why Intra-Lock is hiring while other companies are letting people go. It must be hard for some from the big implant companies to realize and come to terms that another player is emerging. That is what I see when I read some of the posts here. They will eventually come to terms with the fact that Intra-Lock is outpacing the market. There are still doctors that want a quality product backed with tons of studies that support innovation and design.
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This is hilarious! A new player maybe emerging, but that new player has no sales. Outpacing the market? A company did zero dollars last June, this June company does $100 in sales. I guess they are growing by 100% a year! Maybe in Uruguay or Bolivia sales are outpacing the market, in the US, keep dreaming.
 


Anonymous said:
Intra-Lock has thrived while everyone else has struggled. That is why Intra-Lock is hiring while other companies are letting people go. It must be hard for some from the big implant companies to realize and come to terms that another player is emerging. That is what I see when I read some of the posts here. They will eventually come to terms with the fact that Intra-Lock is outpacing the market. There are still doctors that want a quality product backed with tons of studies that support innovation and design.
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Intra-Lock is thriving that is why upper management is on Cafepharma at 1:15 in the afternoon posting bullshit about how busy they are.
 


I've received calls from a recruiter on this company. I'm not buying the $$ they are throwing around. I'd never heard of the company until that phone call and I work for a "name" implant company. Looked at their website and laughed. The mini-implants might have a niche market to gain some sales but no way the regular implants will ever get in the hands of specialists.

Good luck Jose.
 


Anonymous said:
Sounds like a lot of fear to me. This company has been around for 10 years and is making huge growth strides.

Foreign? This is an American company (Boca Raton) with American manufacturing (California).

Previous posts sound like ignorant bitter ex-employees that did not work and got cut.
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Implant originated in Brazil. Not an American product.
 


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I've received calls from a recruiter on this company. I'm not buying the $$ they are throwing around. I'd never heard of the company until that phone call and I work for a "name" implant company. Looked at their website and laughed. The mini-implants might have a niche market to gain some sales but no way the regular implants will ever get in the hands of specialists.

Good luck Jose.
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You want to really laugh, you should sit through their training class! Do you remember the 1960's TV Show "Bozo the Clown"? Image Bozo trying to teach an implant class.
You walk out each day looking for a pistol or a noose, as that fate is in many respects better than attending the next day's class. A bunch of people heard about the horror show, and didn't even show up. 2 out of 3 bailed on the training. Now that is "making huge strides". Another guy told them he wasn't coming to training either-the day before the training started. Great company, making strides. Tools.
 



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