The BENCOR Multi-T testing device was created by Dr. Cornel Driessen, for in vitro research testing of the physical properties of dental restorative materials, during the years of his post graduate research studies at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

The need was to create a system that would be easy to handle, be versatile, and meet with the exact demands of the complex and precise evaluations in research testing procedures. The results should be repeatable, reliable, and show the lowest possible coefficient of variance, even with testing the most delicate materials such as glass ionomers. None of the existing research testing devices available at that time fulfilled these accuracy requirements.

Specialist in the field of metallurgy and physics, Dr. Ben van Biljon, played a key role in the selection and final design of the operating system.

The BM-T is precision manufactured from 316 molybdenum-containing Stainless Steel, resistant to most acids and corrosives. Easy interchange of components adds to its versatility, allowing not only for basic tests such as tensile strength and torsion resistance, tensile bond strength, diametral tensile and compressive strength, film thickness, shear bond strength, and elasticity, but also for more advanced and innovative testing at the discretion of the investigators in their own research laboratories.

The BM-T was introduced to the International Research world at the 2nd International Congress on Dental Materials in November 1993 in Honolulu Hawai. It was during this dental conference that Mr. Thomas Blake from Danville Engineering Inc. in San Ramon, California USA connected with Dr. Driessen. Shortly thereafter, Danville Engineering Inc. became the official Distributor of the BM-T for several years. When Dr. Driessen relocated to Canada as a full time Faculty member of the Dental School at the University of Western Ontario, in London Ontario, distribution moved back to him.

The BM-T has since been established and used worldwide as a valuable tool in the continuous process of necessary research for developing new and improved dental restorative materials. It has been used by leading researchers around the world, and new advanced scientific publications are added on a daily basis.