With hundreds of companies selling thousands of products for a multi-stage dental implant surgery, it is no wonder dental surgeons have a hard time keeping track of it all.

Dr. John Wolfaardt, a Prosthodontics Specialist and a Director at the Institute for Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine (iRSM), knows that there is a better way to manage implant intricacies than battling with ever expanding spreadsheets and filing cabinets. The better way is the W2 Implant Manager®.

Working with Dr. Gordon Wilkes at the iRSM located in the Misericordia Hospital and Caritas Health, Osseopros Technologies Inc., Osseomed Technologies Inc., Isometrics Consulting Ltd., and Redengine Inc., Dr. Wolfaardt came up with the W2 Implant Manager®, a software based system that keeps track of all important aspects of dental surgery such as installation procedure, inventory, and customer satisfaction.

“Now we have a system that tracks what the clinician has done and uploads it anonymously so that a person can look at the data they put in, in relation to everyone else,” says Dr. Wolfaardt. “We know so little about how well one product performs over another. The Implant Manager is the solution.”

TEC Edmonton negotiated a license agreement granting Redengine Inc., a local company, exclusive commercial rights to develop the dental implant monitoring system.