The German Standard in Dental Products

One Billion Burs. When the brothers Ernst and Otto Busch set up their dental bur factory Busch & Co. in Düsseldorf in 1905, they probably never expected that its productivity would be described with these words just 100 years later.

Their intention was to give a further boost to the still fledgling field of dentistry (there were 500 dentists in the whole of Germany in 1905) by producing better instruments. They and the two following Busch generations succeeded admirably, in this respect, as the company's entire history after moving to Engelskirchen in 1908 is characterised by its constant adjustments to the latest developments in science and technology.

World-famous – Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch had very clear ideas about the characteristics and quality of his surgical instruments. The famous surgeon turned to the instrument maker Zepf in Seitingen, still in its infancy back then, to realise his desired surgical instruments and special prototypes for arm and leg prostheses. Isidor Zepf, who founded the company in 1921, and his daughter Rosa (probably one of the first female surgical instrument makers) were able to manufacture these products according to the wishes and ideas of the Berlin professor. The cooperation, which was really quite unusual at that time, formed the basis for the successful development of Zepf in Seitingen. And it proves what is still a matter of course for Zepf today: to be able to implement innovations in the field of medical instruments at short notice and and to develop them into exemplary solutions in cooperation with renowned doctors.

Over the decades to come, Helmut Zepf senior and Helmut Zepf junior shaped the company into a leading manufacturer of dental instruments in Germany.

Today in the fourth generation and headed by Patrick Zepf we are still a family business. Our decisions are still based on strict adherence with the basic standards of Zepf’s quality criteria and a profound readiness to innovate. A family needs a home. For Zepf it is clearly Seitingen-Oberflacht, which has been home since 1921.