BioMers Products, LLC

BioMers Products, LLC has taken NUS’ technology to new heights. Biomers is located in Naples, Florida with a manufacturing facility in Singapore. The company is engaged in developing novel polymer composite products for numerous biomedical applications. While orthodontics is the immediate application area, dentistry and orthopedics are also application targets for this innovative and patent pending technology.

The intellectual property underlying BioMers products are protected through patents and BioMers has worldwide exclusive licensing rights to the technology from the National University of Singapore. BioMers has a fifteen year worldwide exclusive for a critical component of the wires.

The company’s first product is a patented translucent arch wire for the orthodontic treatment market. Aside from being nearly invisible, the arch wires have the necessary mechanical properties to straighten teeth as effectively as other orthodontic treatment alternatives. This has been a product the market has sought since the introduction of the first translucent brackets 20 years ago. No company has even been able to develop a workable translucent arch wire. The product was launched in May of 2008.

In addition, the company has developed and launched a translucent retainer wire. The BioMers ASTICS™ retainer wire may replace all of the metal wires currently used with the Hawley retainers, which represent 65% of the U.S. retainer market. There is not a translucent retainer wire in the orthodontic market today.

Clinical trials were conducted at the University of Washington, Department of Orthodontics and Jacksonville University, School of Orthodontics. These were the two largest clinical trials ever done for arch wires. The results were excellent and proved the endpoints of the clinical trials.

The company has received a FDA 510(k) approval for the arch wire and has registered the retainer wire with the FDA. Both company facilities are FDA approved. The company has received an ISO 13485 approval, Medical Device License in Canada and the CE Mark is expected in the fourth quarter of 2008.