Message from the Company Founder - Doug Kazen:
In 1975, our company began under the name of "North Pacific Dental". We were a minuscule "mom and pop" operation originally employing four adults (full time) and two part-time students. Our original goal was to manufacture and market dental sundries throughout the United States.
Partly because of my background and interest in micro-biology, we eventually became very interested in the concepts associated with dental asepsis. We quickly learned that the challenges of dental asepsis required, in part, a fresh approach to dental equipment. Therefore, we started a new division of our growing company and called it Aseptico. That was the equipment segment of our business.
We continued for a few years as a "two-headed monster". However, my wife Edyie was doing the accounting for both divisions; and quickly raised the point that it was senseless to be raising twins, when one would do. She was right and we rolled the two parts of our company into a single entity, under the corporate name of Aseptico in 1982.
An early effort to address an aseptic concern through modification of standard dental equipment led, almost by accident, to our first venture into the fledgling field of portable dental equipment. I confess... My original response to the suggestion of portability for dentistry was to mock the whole concept. How wrong I was! Portability for the dental profession has now become a recognized entity world-wide.
