Mentor Worldwide LLC[3] is an American company that supplies surgical aesthetics products to plastic surgeons. The company is based in Santa Barbara, California and is part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech business segment.[4] 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
Mentor Corporation was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1969 by Christopher Conway, Eugene Glover, and Thomas Hauser.[5][6]