DTI specializes in cosmetic and restorative dentistry products such as dentures, crowns, bridges, and dental implants. DTI Dental provides dental laboratory services through about a dozen dental labs in the US and four in Canada. The company has shifted focus toward making more use of digital technology in recent years and to that end the company has partnered up with BioHorizons, which provides a host of digital dentistry services such as computer aided design of crowns and abutments and computer aided manufacturing. Both companies, DTI Dental and BioHorizons are owned by private equity firm Healthpoint Capital.

Dynatronics makes medical equipment to keep active people on the go. Its products include electrotherapy, ultrasound, and infrared light therapy equipment; medical supplies such as wraps, braces, bandages, walking aids, and training equipment; rehabilitation therapy tables; and aesthetic products sold under the Synergie brand. Its Synergie Aesthetic Massage System (AMS) uses vacuum massage for cosmetic weight loss, and its Synergie Elite is a microdermabrasion device that reduces wrinkles. The company's products are sold through several distribution channels, including directly through its own distributors, through independent dealers, and via catalog. Customers include physicians, surgeons, and therapists.

Echo Therapeutics,Inc. develops instruments for transdermal (through the skin) drug delivery and diagnostics. Its devices use gentle abrasion and ultrasound technologies to painlessly extract analytes or introduce drugs without breaking the skin. The firm's proprietary Prelude SkinPrep technology platform is being developed for use in glucose monitoring under the name Symphony. Echo is also developing a system to provide needle-free drug administration of lidocaine and other pharmaceuticals. Echo is also developing Azone, a transdermal technology used for reformulated drugs already on the market.

EDAP TMS S.A. develops, manufactures, and markets non-surgical medical devices that treat urological diseases. EDAP's line of lithotripters utilize shockwaves to pulverize kidney stones. The company's Ablatherm system incorporates a technology called High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU), in which ultrasound waves are used to destroy prostate cancer cells. The company is also developing HIFU for the treatment of other types of tumors. Key subsidiaries EDAP Technomed, Inc. and EDAP Technomed Co. Ltd. market the company's products to the US and Japan, respectively. EDAP TMS was established in 1979.

Edwards, the company is a spin-off of Baxter International. Its main products are still heart valve devices, including valves made from animal tissue and annuloplasty rings that repair damaged valves. The company also makes monitoring systems that measure heart function during surgery; various types of cannulae (surgical tubes used for drainage, delivery, or filtration); and embolectomy catheters that remove blood clots from peripheral arteries. Edwards Lifesciences markets its products worldwide through a direct sales force and distributors.

Electrical Geodesics develops and sells medical equipment for use in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience research. Its EEG measurement and analysis systems are used in laboratories throughout the US, Europe, and Asia for research in areas such as neonatal sleep monitoring, stroke evaluation, dementia, and infant language comprehension. The company was founded in 1992.

Elekta AB(publ) manufactures the Gamma Knife -- which isn't a knife at all but a chamber that delivers radiation therapy to treat tumors and cancer in the brain. The Gamma Knife was invented in 1968 by Elekta's founder, Dr. Lars Leksell, the father of radiosurgery. The company manufactures other non-invasive treatment systems, such as image-guided radiation therapy (IRGT) and particle therapy, used to treat cancer elsewhere in the body. Elekta also sells health care-related software through its two subsidiaries, CMS and IMPAC. Elekta was founded in 1972. Its products are used in more than 5,000 hospitals around the world.

Elron Electronic Industries fosters all kinds of high-tech endeavors. The conglomerate founds or invests in Israeli technology companies in a number of fields, including medical devices, semiconductors, software, telecommunications, and clean technology. It typically owns controlling or significant minority stakes in its group companies, for which it plays an active management role; it periodically spins off its offspring to realize gains for investing in new opportunities. Through subsidiary RDC, the company partners with Rafael, a research unit of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, to adapt Rafael-produced technologies for non-military uses.

Empi empathizes with patients who have pain, swelling, spasms, and muscle weakness. The company makes and markets a wide range of medical products, including non-pharmaceutical pain management and orthopedic electrotherapy devices. Empi's product brands include the Saunders cervical traction device used for spinal decompression therapy, the SporTX electrotherapy device for injury swelling reduction, and Minnova, a device that stimulates the pelvic floor to treat urinary incontinence. Empi sells to rehabilitation clinics and medical device distributors nationwide, as well as abroad. The company is a division of medical device maker DJO.

The development-stage medical device company,EnteroMedics Inc. uses neuroblocking technology called VBLOC therapy to combat obesity. Its initial product in development, the Maestro System, is a device laparoscopically implanted near the diaphragm that uses electrical impulses to limit the expansion of the stomach, thereby producing a feeling of prolonged fullness. The Maestro System is in US and international clinical trials, with FDA approval and commercial sales anticipated by 2010. EnteroMedics plans to build a direct sales force to market the product to bariatric surgeons and weight management specialists.

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