The company...

      Founded by C. G. Matasa (www.matasa.net) in 1976 in Hollywood, California, the company exploited the finding that acrylic polymers can be successfully removed from all orthodontic attachments without subjecting them to charring, in other words, to temperatures which generate material degradations. Its unique process is based upon the dissolution of polymerized acrylates at temperatures at which simultaneous sterilization occurs.
      The company moved successively to St. Louis, Missouri, New Orleans, Louisiana, and finally again to… Hollywood, this time in Florida (2026 Scott St., Hollywood, FL 33020). The company cleans, inspects, sorts and decontaminates, as a service to clinicians, orthodontic attachments such as brackets, tubes, bands, and buttons which are also sold or purchased.

             The company has been certified ISO 9002 by Intertek in 1999 and CE by NIOM in 2001.

 
                       ...and its newsletter

("The Orthodontic Materials Insider", www.OrthodonticMaterials.com)

To boast of the advantages of the company’s process, the company has released a newspaper in 1987. Originally named “Phoenix without Ashes”, it was renamed later “The Orthodontic Materials Insider”. Intended first as a means to convince the orthodontists that their valuable attachments (an ounce of metallic “mini” brackets is worth three ounces of gold bullion) can be successfully reused, the newspaper became a magazine dedicated to the biomaterials used in orthodontics, gaining in time rave reviews, as shown in its tenth jubilee, December 1997, from which we quote only the following:

         ...“I’m writing to congratulate you for your many achievements, beginning with the 10th anniversary of your own publication, ‘The Insider’, and finishing with your recent study of the performance of orthodontic brackets that appeared in Orthodontics and Maxillar Orthopedics…

         I should add, however, that much less weight should be given to my own appreciation than to those coming from investigators working directly in the same field as yourself. In this respect, perhaps you should point out that the leading experts in the field of orthodontics are highly appreciative of your work”. G. E. Palade, Nobel Prize laureate (Medicine, 1974)
       “This fine quarterly publication has served a unique purpose. It fills a void that existed, until it was first published 10 years ago. I congratulate professor Matasa on his unselfish contribution to the art and science of orthodontics”-.T. M. Graber, Editor Emeritus of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Editor of World J. of Orthodontics.

     

            Inquiring about the status of orthodontic materials, the editor of a Venezuelan journal, The Journal of Orthopedics-Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Spanish edition, has published in 1996-1997 a succession of interviews. Among these were the following opinions (in translation): 

             ”Some service companies have criticized the quality of products that manufacturers claim to be the best. Thus, Ortho-Cycle, a company that reconditions, sees all the arch wires and the brackets and investigates properties related to composition, tolerances, etc. From this source we learned the first time about the microbial attack of some adhesives”. T. M. Graber, Editor Emeritus of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Editor of World J. of Orthodontics.

            "Could we discern which materials represent a real advance and which are obsolete? This is no easy task, knowing that there are no clear ways to lead us to sort information in a field which is that controversial. A significant step in the right direction is the rare gem of publication known for many years as “Phoenix without Ashes”, recently renamed “The Orthodontic materials Insider”, which allows us to be informed and kept abreast”. M. M. Kuftinec, Professor and Chairman of the Orthodontic Department, New York University.       

           "Our university programs seek to submit products to a variety of tests, investigating brackets, various instruments, new materials, etc., but this is performed in general in retrospect, i.e. by the time the product is already commercialized. It is a great support that you can count on Dr. Claude Matasa as International Consultant for your Journal, and we congratulate you for relaying on his knowing advice in this matter”. R. L. Vanarsdall, Jr. & B. F. Swain, Editors, Orthodontics, Current Principles and Techniques, Mosby: St. Louis, Philadelphia, Sydney, Toronto.

         ”The universities play an important role in this respect, as these do not have a commercial interest in the sale of the products. As a result, their works, investigations and suggestions are reliable. The same goes also for other independent entities such as the companies that recycle used brackets. And if the Journal of Orthopedics and Orthodontics Practice has an executive such as Dr. Matasa as a consultant, who is a reputable metallurgist and an indefatigable scientific author, you can’t find anything better!”. H. P. Bimler, Inventor of the world famous Bimler Appliance.