medical equipment founded minneapolis minnesota usa 1969 headquarters santa barbara california usa key people david j. wilson ceo 1 products contourprofile gel breast implants memorygel breast implants nia 24 skincare see complete products listing . revenue 302 million usd 2007 net income 57.6 million usd 2007 2 number of employees 2 000 2007 parent ethicon website www.mentorwwllc.com mentor worldwide llc is an american company that supplies surgical aesthetics products to plastic surgeons . the company is based in santa barbara california . it produces one of two silicone gel breast implants . titled memorygel the product was approved by the u.s. food and drug administration fda on november 17 2006 . the other fda approved products are developed by competitors allergan and sientra . mentor also produces a range of lipoplasty equipment for liposuction procedures as well as a niacin based skincare product line called nia 24 . history edit mentor corporation was founded in minneapolis minnesota in 1969 by christopher conway eugene glover and thomas hauser . mentor went public in 1970 and its first product line consisted of electronic laboratory instruments for the detection and measurement of the electrical activity of nerve cells and neural systems . special urethral catheters for the treatment of urinary retention were introduced in 1975 . after acquiring the heyer schulte division of american hospital supply in 1984 mentor moved its headquarters to santa barabara california in 1985 . the acquisition provided mentor with a position in the plastic surgery market with heyer schulte s implantable products including breast implants . 3 on jan 23 2009 mentor was acquired by johnson & johnson and is a stand alone business unit reporting through ethicon inc. a johnson & johnson company and provider of suture mesh hemostats and other products for surgical procedures . johnson & johnson company markets its breast implant products in india with the name mentorconfidence . notes and references edit california healthcare institute biography david j. wilson . mentor corporation 2007 annual report view pdf . retrieved 2008 06 12 . mentor corporation history . mentorcorp.com . retrieved 2008 06 12 . us fda cdrh breast implants silicone gel implant approvals 2006 fda http www.fda.gov cdrh breastimplants siliconegel.html mentor corporation official web site mentor corporation http www.mentorcorp.com mentor confidence indian official domain http web.archive.org web 20120319160528 http www.mentorconfidence.com 80 external links edit official website v t e johnson & johnson ceos and presidents current alex gorsky chairman and ceo robert wood johnson i james wood johnson robert wood johnson ii robert wood johnson iii philip b. hofmann richard b. sellars james e. burke ralph s. larsen selected subsidiaries alza corporation cilag crucell depuy inc. ethicon endo surgery inc. ethicon inc. independence technology llc j & j prd janssen biotech janssen pharmaceutica lifescan mcneil consumer & specialty pharmaceuticals mcneil nutritionals ortho mcneil pharmaceutical ortho neutrogena penaten tibotec major brands acuvue aveeno band aid benadryl benecol us license caladryl clean & clear desitin imodium johnson s baby lactaid listerine motrin mylanta mylicon neosporin neutrogena onetouch pepcid plax rembrandt splenda sudafed tylenol visine annual revenue us 74.3 billion fy 2014 annual net income us 16.3 billion fy 2014 employees 118 700 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mentor company & oldid 731739410 categories medical equipment manufacturersmanufacturing companies based in californiamultinational companies headquartered in the united statescompanies based in santa barbara county californiamanufacturing companies established in 19691969 establishments in californiacompanies formerly listed on the new york stock exchangehidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 july 2016 at 06 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view