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Spectrum Killian, National Dentex Labs and Open Implants Unite under SPEKTRA to redefine oral health

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Tue. 13 October 2026

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Spectrum Killian, National Dentex Labs (NDX) and Open Implants have announced that they have joined forces, uniting three of the most respected names in the dental industry under a shared commitment to technology-driven, digital dentistry. The combination converges Spectrum Killian’s process-engineered manufacturing with NDX’s international reach and decades of trusted clinical relationships to reimagine oral health, making advanced, digitally engineered care accessible to every practice and every patient.

SPEKTRA emerges as the parent company uniting the three businesses under a single vision. The unification reflects a shared conviction that restorative dentistry, long practiced as a case-by-case art, can be improved and engineered into a precise, repeatable science, delivered through scalable digital workflows.

Through its companies, SPEKTRA is building an interconnected oral health ecosystem that unites technology, manufacturing and clinical care to redefine the future of care. As practices adopt intraoral scanning and chairside workflows, the manufacturing and support behind those tools have remained fragmented across providers and platforms. SPEKTRA is built to close that gap.

Joining SPEKTRA’s oral health ecosystem, Spectrum Killian brings the discipline of engineered manufacturing, breaking restorative work into documented, repeatable steps across its Centers of Excellence in California. NDX reaches clinicians through an expansive international network of local laboratories, built on high-volume infrastructure and relationships earned over decades.

Together with Open Implants, an FDA-registered implant component manufacturer, the combined organization is positioned to advance clinical support and patient care with a level of precision and consistency dentistry has long needed.

“For too long, dentistry has been fragmented and slow to adopt digital technology. The clinical tools, the materials and the manufacturing behind them were never built to work together,” said Charbel Louis Karam, chief executive officer of SPEKTRA. “SPEKTRA is changing that. We are building one integrated oral health ecosystem where the clinician and everything standing behind the restoration finally move as one. Together, we will redefine oral health to better serve our patients and the clinicians.”

Clinicians built the trust that dentistry runs on. SPEKTRA is built to strengthen it, giving clinicians a partner they can count on and the technology, scale and support to raise what every restoration can deliver for the patient in the chair.

Operating from its Centers of Excellence in California, Spectrum Killian engineers restorative work into documented, repeatable steps, delivering precision restorations at scale. Visit www.skdla.com to learn more.

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