Our impressive history is the perfect start to a promising future.

Elevate Oral Care, Established in 2010

Our management team has built an impressive history with some of the most respected names in the industry. Their experience includes brands like CavityShield™, Vanish™, Peridex®, PerioMed™, and ControlRx™.

Before its sale to 3M ESPE in 2006, our original company, OMNII Oral Pharmaceuticals (OOP), was one of the nation’s most admired names in preventive care. For three decades, OOP was instrumental in bringing innovative preventive care products to dental professionals and their patients.

In addition to the collective achievements of OOP, the founders of Elevate Oral Care have equally impressive records:

Arika Olijar

As customer service manager I work to ensure Elevate interacts with Dentistry in the most effective and professional manner. It’s my goal to guarantee each time you contact us we deliver everything you expect and more. My highly trained team of customer service representatives can not only provide the best preventive care products, but also the latest research, guidelines and science supporting their use.

Craig Miller

It is an honor serving as the National Sales Manager for Elevate Oral Care. I get to work daily with our Preventive Care Consultants, the best trained disease prevention team in dentistry. It is very gratifying to know we are improving the health and lives of patients around the United States. We do this by helping offices implement evidence-based prevention dentistry including CAMBRA principles and ADA and AAPD guidelines and recommendations. Additionally, we help ensure prevention protocols result in improved production for clinics. I encourage all offices to contact your Preventive Care Consultant and schedule an AGD, PACE accredited continuing education presentation. I also encourage qualified candidates interested in joining our team of Preventive Care Consultants to submit a resume and cover letter.

Kevin Thomas

As a child I would have been categorized as extreme high risk for caries, an Early Childhood Caries sufferer. Cavities were common among my seven siblings. I don’t explain to people “what" we do at Elevate Oral Care, I use my own life experiences to explain to them the “why”. No child or adult should go to bed, attend school or suffer to eat due to oral pain. We design products and educate oral health providers on the latest and most effective chemistries to give their patients the best chance at living an oral disease free life. Our search and work will never be done. There will always be a better product or solution in front of us.

Rich Krone

As a Managing Member and Co-Founder of Elevate Oral Care, I have more than 30 years of experience in sales and marketing working with international brands including DuPont, McDonald’s, Sears, Pepsi and Pizza Hut. I also worked extensively with some of the largest dental products companies in the world including 3M Dental, Dentsply, ESPE America and WaterPik. Currently, I’m leading Elevate’s efforts to make its products available around the globe.

Steve Pardue

As a Member of Elevate Oral Care, I’m able to develop leading preventive dental therapies and share them with dental professionals and patients worldwide. It’s my responsibility to listen to your needs as clinicians and patients, and to teach our team of Preventive Care Consultants how best to begin preventive protocols in offices across the country. We believe preventing tooth decay and periodontal disease to save patient's natural teeth is paramount to dentistry’s future, and we’re working to achieve these goals.

Elevate Oral Care executives are involved in many organizations focused on improving oral health for all Americans. These include:

• The Dental Trade Alliance Foundation
• Children’s Dental Health Project
• American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation
• TeamSmile, a partnership between dental and sports professionals to promote oral health for children

Most notably, since evidence-based research forms the basis for our product line innovations, members of Elevate Oral Care leadership have either attended or been invited to virtually every oral health advocacy and research conference that has taken place over the past three decades.

If you have any questions, please call us at 877-866-9113 or sign up to have an informative Staff Meeting.

Our Customer Service Center is open from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.

CavityShield, Vanish, Peridex, PerioMed and ControlRx are trademarks or registered trademaks of 3M Company.