Ultimate Dental

Indeed, it was necessity that gave birth to ENDOCO, Inc, now known as Ultimate Dental. In 1969, Dr. Milton Siskin, Sr., a world-renowned endodontist, was having difficulty procuring some silver points used in his practice. While searching for that product, he discovered an opportunity to actually buy the equipment used to manufacture the silver poi... nts. With his usual determination, he traveled from Memphis, Tennessee, to St. Louis, Missouri, where he completed his purchase and joined with Young Dental in manufacturing the points. In addition to having his own private practice, Dr. Siskin also taught Endodontics for many years at the University Of Tennessee College Of Dentistry in Memphis. When many of his colleagues and former students learned that he had access to the silver points they also needed, he began receiving many requests for purchases. He had the supply, and there was the prerequisite demand. Starting out as a literal kitchen industry, Dr. Siskin solicited the services of his family, including his mother-in-law. Working from their kitchen table, they would count the points, put them in vials and label them. Over the next few years, Dr. Siskin thought of a few other endodontic products that he might purchase and resell. By 1973, the requests for products required the services of a bookkeeper, a secretary and a packer to ship the growing number of orders. In June of that year, the company was incorporated. Since Dr. Siskin at that time was selling only inventory that was specific to the practice of endodontics, he used the nickname of his specialty, ENDO, and the contraction of the word company to form the name ENDOCO, Inc. To house his new enterprise, he leased spaced in the same building in which his practice was located. About the time that Dr. Milton Siskins older son, Dr. Milton Siskin, Jr., completed dental school and began a private practice, his younger son Greg began to realize his passion for the business side of the industry. Through this father-son combination, the company continued to ...Read More