About the ContacEZ Company
The ContacEZ Company is a leading provider of dental strips used for achieving ideal proximal contacts, interproximal space cleaning and contouring and polishing of proximal surfaces.
Our flagship product, ContacEZ Diamond Dental Strip was recently recognized as a Top 100 Product for 2007 by Dental Products Report. This innovative dental device is used prior to final cementation to achieve ideal proximal contact adjustment.
Since its successful debut in October 2006, The ContacEZ Company has been steadily expanding its product line. With a mission for better dentistry, we are continuously investing in research and developing new ways to deliver value to our dentists by providing excellent technical support and a total satisfaction guarantee.
Our goal is to improve dental health care by providing dentists with dental devices that will enhance patient comfort and functionality immediately after the final cementation of indirect restorations.
Our Mission
More than 30 years ago, a patient who had lost a crown was assigned to a young dentist, Dr. Daniel Kim. During his examination, Dr. Kim found that the dentin of the prepared portion of the tooth under the crown had decayed and was completely gone, causing the crown to fall off. He learned that his senior dentist in the clinic had seated the crown only two years prior. The cause of decay beneath the crown puzzled him. It was the beginning of his lifelong search for a better crown seating method.
After many years of research and experience in his own dental practice, Dr. Kim determined that incomplete marginal seating with heavy proximal contact is a common cause of dental decay under a crown. Dr. Kim was determined to find a simple technique for restoring ideal proximal contact in indirect restorations.
In proximal contact adjustment, Dr. Kim believes that it is important to restore the microscopic clearance or passive contact to relieve pressure between the proximal contact surfaces of the indirect restoration and the adjacent teeth. He refers to this relief of pressure in the interproximal space as “interproximal relief.”
Dr. Kim invented ContacEZ Diamond Dental Strip to achieve interproximal relief. Use of ContacEZ Diamond Dental Strip eliminates the need for articulating films and rotary instruments during the adjustment of the proximal contact of indirect restorations. The single-handed design of ContacEZ Diamond Dental Strip offers tactile control, allows easy access to limited anterior and posterior spaces intraorally, and makes crown seating simple and easy.
Dr. Kim has been striving for better dentistry throughout his professional career. It has now become his mission to promote the simple technique of interproximal relief using ContacEZ Diamond Dental Strip.
Dr. Kim’s Biography
Dr. Kim is an innovative dentist with an eye toward “better dentistry.” He has invented numerous precision dental devices and has continuously sought to improve dentistry throughout his career. He is the inventor of the popular dental instrument Super Plugger. He also holds a variety of U.S. patents for numerous items ranging from dental devices to household items. Dr. Kim has also contributed to numerous dental journals and periodicals.
Dr. Kim has been practicing dentistry in Vancouver, Washington for 30 years. He is a 1967 graduate of Seoul National University Dental School. He completed his internship and residency program in Prosthodontics at Kwangju Christian Hospital in Korea in 1970. He served the following three years in the military as a captain in a MASH Dental Unit. He had a private dental practice in Seoul and taught Crown and Bridge Construction as a part-time faculty member at Yonsei University Dental School in Korea from 1973 to 1975. He moved to the United States in 1975.
In Vancouver, Washington, he was a volunteer instructor for the Dental Hygienist Program at Clark College from 1978 to 1983. In addition, he has lectured An Alternative Method of Ridge Augmentation Associated with Complete Denture Construction in the post-doctoral program as a visiting professor at Korea University Medical School Dental Department from 1992 to 1999. Dr. Kim was also a featured speaker at KADA Scientific Sessions and Seminars in Los Angeles and Portland from 2000 to 2005.
Dr. Kim was an accomplished speed ice skater and a member of the Professional Ski Instructors of America. He plays tennis regularly and enjoys playing golf. His patients call him “The Singing Dentist,” since he loves to sing in his office. Dr. Kim’s dancing skills brought him top honors at the 2006 Dancing with the Local Stars in his hometown. Dr. Kim and his wife, Hooja, a former college instructor, live in Vancouver, Washington and have three grown children: daughter, Shilla, an attorney, and two sons, Danny, an industrial designer, and Joshua, a professional photographer.