ABOUT SUNSTAR

SUNSTAR has worked side by side with dental professionals for over many years and is now the World’s seventh largest oral care company. Its GUM® product range - which is the number one brand in Japan and present in more than 80 countries worldwide – is now available in the UK.

	Hiroo Kaneda. Chairman.

Sunstar is a multi-faceted Japanese corporation which was established in Osaka in 1932 by the Kaneda family and now predominantly focuses on four interrelated sectors; Mouth and Body; Health and Beauty; Healthy Home and Safety and Technology, achieving worldwide sales of over $1.2 billion.

The fact that Sunstar is the seventh largest oral care company in the world is as a result of the vision of its current Chairman Hiroo Kaneda. Thanks to the Company’s astute acquisition of Butler, Sunstar became a global oral healthcare company with worldwide reach, but maintained its position by cleaving to its founders’ vision of designing products which exceed the highest professional standards and oral hygiene requirements. Insightfully, the original concept of product innovation, developed in synergy with the dental profession has prevailed ever since, so that today Sunstar works in a global partnership with dentistry to cultivate a better understanding of the links between oral health, general health and quality of life

The GUM® brand is specifically designed to fight and prevent the local effects of periodontal disease and its impact on overall health. This innovative, premium collection takes a progressive three step methodology to oral health to provide all-encompassing patient care:


Sunstar’s philosophy is to encourage practitioners to work with them from diagnosis to prevention in practice and then offer a highly effective range of products so that patients can carry on the good work at home between appointments.