About Us

For over 40 years, DCI has been dedicated to supporting the dental community with high-quality parts, equipment, and cabinetry that emphasize both reliability and value. What began as a company focused on dental components has grown into one of the world’s largest and most trusted dental parts manufacturers. Major equipment manufacturers and service technicians have relied on DCI for decades, building our reputation for excellence and dependability.

In 2016, we expanded our mission with the launch of DCI Edge—our dental equipment and cabinetry brand—now recognized as North America’s fastest-growing and second-largest equipment manufacturer.  Today, with the combined strength of DCI and NSK, we bring together over 130 years of experience in designing and manufacturing dental solutions. Our shared commitment is to craft innovative, long-lasting products that deliver unmatched performance, comfort, and value for practices everywhere.

Designing and building the best dental equipment in the industry is our passion. Manufacturing with an unwavering focus on reliability and optimal value is our promise.

Our Core Values

1. Make our customer’s life easier.

We believe in managing every aspect of the business around the simple goal of making our customer’s life easier. We are guided by a key principle: that by delivering expertly-made, value-driven products, while never wavering in our commitment to customer service and care, we can simplify and improve the lives—and businesses—of our customers. This value has driven DCI since its inception, and has remained at the forefront of all we do.

2. Enhance the lives of our employees.

While we remain focused on making each customer’s life easier, we also know that a business is nothing without the people that keep it going. We strive every day to create an environment and company culture that celebrates accomplishments, nurtures each employee, and caters to a healthy work-life balance.

Our employees make us what we are. Click here to learn more about working for DCI and join our team.

3. Provide dental care to those in need.

DCI’s founders, John and Janelle Spencer, have long had a dream that 250,000 people per year would someday receive dental care on donated DCI equipment. They have long since committed to that goal, and to supporting communities in need, by helping to provide free and affordable dental care. The Spencer Family Foundation, officially founded in 2005, is a larger-scale continuation of their many years of work in the community.

The foundation often partners with major dealers like Henry Schein, Benco, and Burkhart on their community programs, ensuring that we work with organizations that will make long-term use of donated equipment and provide essential care to communities who have not otherwise had access. These partnerships include, among many others:

  • Opening a large-scale dental school in Tanzania, now used by students across Africa
  • Compassion Connect (Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Minnesota)
  • Compassion Connect India
  • Virginia Garcia Beaverton Wellness Center
  • Mothers of Mercy (MOM)
  • Pacific University
  • International organizations worldwide

 

Four Decades of DCI

Four Decades of DCI

Forty years ago, equipped with a small home loan, a concept for an improved dental syringe, and a makeshift office in their living room, John and Janelle Spencer started DCI. Drawing on their own firsthand experience in the dental industry—John having been a top representative for a major dental supplier and Janelle working as a dental hygienist—they turned DCI into the world’s largest and most trusted dental parts manufacturer.

Eventually becoming a multi-generational family business, with the addition of their children Jason and Amy to the company, they then expanded further with the launch of DCI Edge, the company’s dental equipment brand. In pursuit of this continued expansion and growth, in 2023 DCI went through a transition of ownership to the dental manufacturer NSK—another family-run company with decades of experience in the dental industry and shared focus on the customer, employee, and community. Today, the two brands have over 130 years of experience and a reputation for reliability, craftsmanship, and service. We have a shared dedication to producing long-lasting, feature-rich products for our customers.

  • 1983

    DCI is founded by John and Janelle Spencer as a manufacturer of quality dental parts and accessories, driven by the principle of making the customer’s life easier.

  • 1993

    DCI becomes the largest dental parts manufacturer in the world.

  • 1997

    DCI acquires Pelton & Crane and Marus, expanding into the dental equipment market. These companies are later sold in 2005, but this provides the experience to ultimately start the DCI Edge brand.

  • 2016

    DCI announces an expansion, launching DCI Edge, their brand of dental equipment. DCI continues to innovate with the introduction of the Series 5 Operatory Package.

  • 2018

    DCI continues to expand its dental offerings with the introduction of cabinetry and orthodontic lines.

  • 2020

    DCI launches the integrated NSK NLZE electric motor. The two family-owned dental manufacturers form a partnership, and NSK became a minority investor in DCI.

  • 2022

    DCI Edge becomes the fastest growing dental equipment manufacturer in North America. The Series 5 Chair becomes the chair most frequently chosen by private practice and DSO dentists in the US.

  • 2022

    As a result of a random act of arson, the DCI Parts Assembly and Corporate Office building burns to the ground. With limited interruptions to customer orders or staff pay, the building’s operations are moved to a new temporary location within months.

  • 2023

    John Spencer wins EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 Mountain West for his decades of work in the industry and successful growth of multiple businesses.

  • 2024

    DCI celebrates 40 years in business and becomes an NSK company, in order to continue their goals for innovation and accelerated growth.

  • 2025

    DCI launches an industry leading 10-year warranty on DCI Edge dental equipment. Also launches the Series 5 Plus Delivery System with the NSK NLZ PRO Dual Electric Motor System.
DCI and NSK all-employee barbeque August 2023

The Series 5 Plus Delivery System with the NSK NLZ PRO Dual Electric Motor System. A perfect fusion of elevated design, improved ergonomics, and advanced technology integration.