Five clinicians.
Five countries.
One forge.
Leading clinicians from around the world develop their instruments together with us — conceived chairside, forged in Tuttlingen.
Meet the five partners
How a partner set is made
Three steps — and not one of them begins on our shop floor.
Chairside
It never starts with a product brief. It starts with one movement that no existing instrument performs cleanly — and the partner brings it out of his own operating room.
In the prototype shop
Tuttlingen forges the first handle. It is tested in practice, rejected and re-filed — for as long as it takes until shape, weight and working end are right.
Into production
Only then does the instrument go into series. It carries the partner's name — and every single part stays available on its own, for good.
Five clinicians, five countries
From Pennsylvania to Izmir: every one of them operates himself — and has built the very instrument he was missing while doing it.
Dr Maurice Salama
Periodontics and aesthetic soft-tissue surgery
His work in mucogingival plastic surgery became our set for recession coverage and soft-tissue grafting.
Read more about Dr Maurice Salama
Dr Ricardo Kern
Soft-tissue design and immediate implant placement
He tunnels everything from a single gap to a full arch — the Kern tunnelling kit follows exactly that workflow.
Read more about Dr Ricardo Kern
Prof Howard Gluckman
Reconstruction, implants and high-end aesthetics
The PET Shield technique needed a holder that guides the shield to the millimetre. We built it together.
Read more about Prof Howard Gluckman
Dr Markus Schlee
Periodontics and implantology
Inventor of the umbrella technique: umbrella screws hold the space open and the clot stable — and the set comes from us.
Read more about Dr Markus Schlee
Dr Serhat Aslan
Regenerative periodontal surgery
He defined total papilla preservation. To make the papilla measurable at all, the Aslan periodontal probe was born.
Read more about Dr Serhat AslanWhat came out of it
Every partnership ends in an instrument or a complete set — available as a kit, and every part in it reorderable on its own.
What users say
I have been working with USTOMED for several years now. They are the only company that lives from innovating high-quality surgical instruments.
Ustomed is a company with very lean structures and hierarchies, so innovation can be realised in a straight line and reliably.
I value the ergonomic, lightweight design of these instruments — it keeps handling precise and controlled even through long procedures.
Ustomed instruments have proven themselves in my clinic for many years.
Frequently asked questions
Can I buy a partner set complete — or single instruments from it?
Both. Every set is available as a complete kit, and every instrument in it can be reordered on its own by its article number. If one piece is lost or has to be replaced, nobody has to buy the whole tray again.
Are the partner sets available outside Germany?
Yes. We supply Germany, Austria and Switzerland directly through this shop; every other market is served by authorised distributors in more than 40 countries. Find a distributor in your country.
Where are the partner instruments made?
The partners come from five countries, the manufacturing stays in one place: Tuttlingen, the largest medical technology cluster in the world, where Ustomed has been forging instruments since 1974. That does not hold across the whole range — for some products at least one part is made abroad. If you need to know for a particular article, just ask.
Where do I find the brochure, the instructions for use and the eIFU for a set?
Some of the partner sets come with a brochure on the technique itself; it lives on that partner's page. Instructions for use and eIFU for all instruments are collected in the download area. Go to the download area.
How do I become a Scientific Partner?
By coming to us with a concrete idea from your own practice — not a product wish, but a movement that does not work yet. Describe your approach and we will look at it together to see whether an instrument can be built from it.
Got an idea for an instrument?
Every one of these partnerships started with a phone call. Tell us what you are missing in the operating room.