DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. (‘Dentsply Sirona’), together with its subsidiaries, manufactures professional dental products and technologies globally.
Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets comprehensive solutions, including technologically advanced dental equipment supported by cloud-enabled solutions, dental products, and healthcare consumable products in urology and enterology under a strong portfolio of world-class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s innovative products provide high-quality, eff...
DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. (‘Dentsply Sirona’), together with its subsidiaries, manufactures professional dental products and technologies globally.
Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets comprehensive solutions, including technologically advanced dental equipment supported by cloud-enabled solutions, dental products, and healthcare consumable products in urology and enterology under a strong portfolio of world-class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s innovative products provide high-quality, effective, and connected solutions to advance patient care and deliver better, safer, and faster dentistry. The company introduced the first dental electric drill, the first dental X-ray unit, the first hydrophilic catheter, and the first dental computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (‘CAD/CAM’) system, as well as numerous other significant innovations, including pioneering ultrasonic scaling to increase the speed, effectiveness, and comfort of cleaning, and revolutionizing both file and apex locator technology to make root canal procedures easier and safer.
The company sells products globally through its foreign subsidiaries to customers in approximately 150 countries. Dentsply Sirona has a long-established presence in the European market, particularly in Germany, Sweden, France, the United Kingdom (‘UK’), Italy, and Switzerland. The company also has a significant market presence in the Asia-Pacific region, Central and South America, the Middle East region, and Canada.
Principal Products and Product Categories
The professional dental industry encompasses the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and ailments of the teeth, gums, and supporting bone. The company offers a broad suite of dental products that together provide digital workflows for dental practitioners to make the highest use of technological advancements throughout each stage of patient care. Dentsply Sirona’s principal dental product categories are dental technology and equipment products, dental implants, clear aligners, and dental consumable products. Additionally, the company manufactures and sells healthcare consumable products for urological and enterological applications. As part of its dental technology and equipment solutions, the company also offers an open, cloud-based platform for digital services, DS Core. These products and solutions are produced by the company globally and are distributed throughout the world under some of the most well-established brand names and trademarks in these industries, including, but not limited to: AH PLUS, ANKYLOS, AQUASIL ULTRA, ARTICADENT, ASTRA TECH, ATLANTIS, AXANO, AXEOS, BYTE, CALIBRA, CAULK, CAVITRON, CELTRA, CERAMCO, CERCON, CEREC, CITANEST, CONFORM FIT, DAC, DELTON, DENTSPLY, DETREY, DS CORE, DYRACT, ENERGO, ESTHET.X, FRIOS, HELIODENT, EV, INLAB, INTEGO, IPN, LOFRIC, LUCITONE, MAILLEFER, MIDWEST, MIS, NAVINA, NUPRO, OMNITAPER, ORAQIX, ORIGO, ORTHOPHOS, OSSEOSPEED, OSSIX, PALODENT, PRIME & BOND, PROFILE, PRIMEMILL, PRIMEPRINT, PRIMESCAN, PRIMESCAN CONNECT, PRIMETAPER, PROGLIDER, PROTAPER, RECIPROC, PUREVAC, SCHICK, SDR FLOW+, SIDEXIS, SIMPLANT, SINIUS, SIROLASER, SIRONA, SLIMLINE, SMARTLITE, SPECTRA ST, STYLUS, SULTAN, SURESMILE, SYMBIOS, T1, T2, T3, T4, THERMAFIL, TRIODENT, TRUBYTE, TRUNATOMY, VDW, VIPI, WAVEONE, WELLSPECT, XENO, XIOS, X SMART, XYLOCAINE, and ZHERMACK.
Segments
The company conducts business through four reportable segments: Connected Technology Solutions, Essential Dental Solutions, Orthodontic and Implant Solutions, and Wellspect Healthcare.
Connected Technology Solutions
This segment includes the design, manufacture, and sales of the company’s dental technology and equipment products. These products include the Equipment & Instruments and CAD/CAM product categories.
Equipment & Instruments
The Equipment & Instruments product category consists of basic and high-tech dental equipment, such as imaging equipment, motorized dental handpieces, treatment centers, and other instruments for dental practitioners and specialists. Imaging equipment serves as a key point of entry to the company’s digital workflow offerings and consists of a broad range of diagnostic imaging systems for 2D or 3D, panoramic, and intraoral applications, as well as cone-beam computed tomography systems (‘CBCT’). Treatment centers comprise a broad range of products from basic dental chairs to sophisticated chair-based units with integrated diagnostic, hygienic, and ergonomic functionalities, as well as specialist centers used in preventive treatment and for training purposes. This product group also includes other lab equipment, such as amalgamators, mixing machines, and porcelain furnaces.
CAD/CAM
Dental CAD/CAM technologies are products designed for dental professionals to support numerous digital workflows for procedures, such as dental restorations through integrations with DS Core, the company’s cloud-based platform. This product category includes intraoral scanners, 3-D printers, mills, and certain software and services, as well as a full-chairside economical restoration of esthetic ceramic dentistry offering called CEREC, which enables dentists to practice same-day or single-visit dentistry.
Essential Dental Solutions
This segment includes the development, manufacture, and sales of the company’s value-added endodontic, restorative, and preventive consumable products, and small equipment used by dental professionals for the treatment of patients. Offerings in this segment also include specialized treatment products, including products used in the creation of dental appliances.
Essential Dental Solutions products are designed to operate in an integrated system to provide solutions for high-tech dental procedures. The endodontic products include motorized endodontic handpieces, files, sealers, irrigation needles, and other tools or single-use solutions that support root canal procedures. The restorative products include dental ceramics and other materials used in prosthetic restorations, including crowns and veneers.
The preventive products include small equipment products, such as curing light systems, dental diagnostic systems, and ultrasonic scalers and polishers, as well as other dental supplies, including dental anesthetics, prophylaxis paste, dental sealants, and impression materials.
Orthodontic and Implant Solutions
This segment includes the design, manufacture, and sales of the company’s various digital implant systems and innovative dental implant products, digital dentures, and dental professional-directed aligner solutions. Offerings in this segment also include the application of the company’s digital services and technology, including those provided by DS Core, its cloud-based platform.
Orthodontics
The Orthodontics product category includes SureSmile, a clear aligner solution provided through clinician offices, and Byte, a direct-to-consumer clear aligner solution. The Orthodontics product category includes a High Frequency Vibration technology device known as VPro, as well as the SureSmile Simulator, which uses intraoral scanners and the company’s DS Core platform to create a 3D visualization of patient outcomes, and SureSmile aligner solutions, which include whitening kits and retainers. The aligner offerings also include software technology that enables aligner treatment planning and the seamless connectivity of a digital workflow from diagnostics through treatment delivery. Byte operations were significantly reduced after October 24, 2024, and limited to supporting patients already undergoing treatment, following a decision to voluntarily suspend sales and marketing of Byte aligners and impression kits. In January 2025, the company subsequently announced it will no longer offer the Byte direct-to-consumer clear aligner solution to new patients, and it has decided to leverage technologies developed by Byte elsewhere in the aligners portfolio to create orthodontic demand, support a digital clinical workflow, enhance the customer experience, and improve patient monitoring.
Implants & Prosthetics
The Implants & Prosthetics product category includes technology to support the company’s digital workflows for implant systems, a portfolio of innovative dental implant products, digital dentures, crown and bridge porcelain products, bone regenerative and restorative solutions, treatment planning software, and educational programs. The Implants & Prosthetics product category is supported by key technologies, including custom abutments, advanced tapered immediate load screws, and regenerative bone growth factor. Offerings in this category also include dental prosthetics, such as artificial teeth and precious metal dental alloys.
Wellspect Healthcare
This segment includes the design, manufacture, and sales of the company’s innovative continence care solutions for both urinary and bowel management. Wellspect Healthcare is a leading global provider of innovative medical devices that help people suffering from urinary retention or chronic constipation. Wellspect is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of intermittent urinary catheters, with LoFric as the most known brand. To help those with chronic or severe constipation, Wellspect also offers an advanced irrigation system, Navina, which combines a high degree of user convenience, clinical effectiveness, and connectivity into one smart system.
Sales and Distribution
As of December 31, 2024, Dentsply Sirona employed approximately 4,600 highly trained sales and technical staff specialized in each of its various products and solutions to provide comprehensive marketing, sales, and technical support services to meet the needs of its distributors and end-users.
The company remains focused on its strategy of enabling dentists to utilize superior integrated workflows through its robust market offerings in all key areas of dental procedures (implants, endodontic, restorative, and aligners), as well as digital infrastructure (CAD/CAM and imaging) utilized in dental practices around the globe. In 2024, the company continued a rigorous portfolio management process to simplify and optimize its suite of product offerings, gain efficiencies through optimized product life-cycle management, and improve overall customer experience. The program, which has the potential to be expanded in future years, had an initial focus on endodontic and restorative consumable products, including a goal of achieving additional efficiency from optimizing its geographic footprint.
Dentsply Sirona distributes approximately two-thirds of its dental consumable and technology and equipment products through third-party distributors. Certain products, such as endodontic instruments and materials, dental implants, and orthodontic aligners and appliances, are often sold directly to dental laboratories or dental professionals in some markets. The company’s continence care products are primarily sold to distributors of medical supplies, with the remaining sales being made directly to patients and medical providers.
Although a significant portion of the company’s sales are made to distributors, Dentsply Sirona focuses much of its marketing efforts on orthodontists, dentists, dental specialists, dental hygienists, dental assistants, dental laboratories, and dental schools, which are the end-users of its products. As part of this end-user ‘pull through’ marketing strategy, the company conducts extensive marketing programs with a combined approach that also engages DSOs and distributors.
Product Development
During 2022, the company unveiled its cloud solution, DS Core, an open platform developed in collaboration with Google Cloud that integrates digital dentistry workflows across its devices, services, and technologies. DS Core supports access for end users to case files, orders, and messages through a web browser without any software licenses. The DS Core digital platform is designed to enable simplified cloud storage, optimize diagnostic capabilities, and streamline existing workflows with laboratory partners. Innovations include the company’s Primeprint Solution, which provides medical-grade 3D printing; Primescan Connect, which offers a laptop-based version of Primescan; the SmartLite Pro EndoActivator, which serves as a new irrigation solution for root canal procedures; and the Axano treatment center, combining smart design with efficient workflows. During 2022, the company also introduced its premium EV Implants System for providing implants that are simplified and digitally enabled and introduced SureSmile Solutions, an enhanced orthodontic offering that includes a whitening kit, retainers, and the VPro orthodontic device.
During 2023, the company launched key digital dentistry offerings within the DS Core platform, including the SureSmile Simulator and several updates to DS Core. The SureSmile Simulator creates a 3D visualization of patients’ potential new smile to be achieved in clear aligner treatment using uploads from a Primescan intraoral scanner. The DS Core Communication Canvas allows for communication with patients through images and scans, along with annotations by the dentist. DS Core’s lab connectivity features enable digital collaboration between dentists and their preferred lab. Also in 2023, the company released expanded milling and printing materials to enhance the Primeprint and Primemill Solutions and workflows for patient-specific nightguards and splints. The company continued to expand its innovative endodontic solutions with the X-Smart Pro+ motor, the Midwest Energo series of electric handpiece instruments, and the Ossix Agile, an innovative, pericardium-based membrane for periodontic procedures.
During 2024, the company introduced additional key offerings in digital dentistry with Primescan 2 and further updates to DS Core. Primsescan 2 is the next generation of intraoral scanners and features a cloud-native and wireless design. The new technology performs scans, which are then captured directly on the DS Core cloud platform, enabling dental professionals additional mobility when treating patients. The newly launched DS Core Enterprise provides DSOs a cloud-based platform for digital workflows to centralize management and monitoring of equipment, giving DSOs transparency over all equipment connected to DS Core across their practices. The company also introduced the Axano Pure treatment center, which incorporates an enhanced touch display screen, allowing dental professionals to integrate DS Core directly for processing and displaying patient scans and patient communication. In 2024, the company also expanded its implant business with the MiS Lynx implant, a new, conical connection implant technology, the PrimerTaper Guided Surgery, and Atlantis for BLX and Neodent. The company also added a multi-layer abutment block to the CEREC Zirconia offering within the restorative business and the Oryx product within the endodontic business.
Clinical Education
In 2024, the company continued its investments in clinical education as a key value driver to leverage its global footprint, enhance digital content, and strengthen its clinical network. As part of this objective, the company remains committed to participation in clinical research demonstrating the efficacy of its products prior to market introduction, and in supporting the clinical education and technical training of dental professionals. Dentsply Sirona has 57 academies and education centers in 35 countries worldwide that are home to state-of-the-art training facilities which provide training both directly and through third-party content for dental professionals seeking clinical and technical continuing education. The academies offer hands-on teaching, live lectures, and on-demand webinars and courses, which are taught by a diverse range of internationally recognized experts in all fields of dentistry. In 2024, the company partnered in the delivery of thousands of training courses to dental professionals through in-person, online, and hybrid formats. As part of these courses, the company trains laboratory technicians, dental hygienists, dental assistants, and dentists in the proper use of its products and introduces them to the latest technological developments. Additionally, the company maintains ongoing consulting and educational relationships with various dental associations and recognized worldwide opinion leaders in the dental field. Initiatives to support clinical education also include partnerships with research institutions and dental and medical schools. The company offers education tracks at its premier DS World trade and professional education events, which hosted over 7,000 participants at six DS World events across the globe in 2024. These investments in clinical education allow the company to reinforce and develop relationships with dental professionals. The company also annually supports the achievements of dental students conducting innovative research through its Student Competition for Advancing Dental Research and its Application Awards program.
Through the company’s internal research centers, as well as through its collaborations with external research institutions, dental and medical schools, the company directly invests in the development of new products, the improvement of existing products, and advancements in technology. These investments include an emphasis on research in digital data sharing technology, including the incorporation of long-term artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Regulation
The majority of the company’s products are classified as medical devices and are subject to restrictions under domestic and foreign laws, rules, regulations, self-regulatory codes, circulars, and orders, including, but not limited to, the U.S. Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the ‘FDCA’), Council Directive 93/42/EEC on Medical Devices (‘MDD’) in the European Union (‘EU’), which was updated to the EU Medical Device Regulation (‘MDR’), and similar international laws and regulations. The FDCA requires these products, when sold in the United States, to be safe and effective for their intended use and to comply with the regulations administered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (‘FDA’). Certain medical device products are also regulated by comparable agencies in non-U.S. countries in which they are produced or sold.
Dental and medical devices sold by the company in the United States are generally classified by the FDA into a category that renders them subject to the same controls that apply to all medical devices, including regulations regarding alteration, misbranding, notification, record-keeping, and good manufacturing practices. In the EU, the company’s products are subject to the medical device laws of the various member states, which are based on a Directive of the European Commission. Such laws generally regulate the safety of the products in a similar way to the FDA regulations. The company’s products in Europe bear the CE mark showing that such products comply with European regulations. The company’s products classified by the EU MDD were mandated to be certified under the MDR. These regulations also applied to all medical device manufacturers who market their medical devices in the EU, and all such manufacturers had to perform significant upgrades to quality systems and processes, including technical documentation, and subject them to certification under the EU MDR in order to continue to sell those products in the EU.
The company is also subject to domestic and foreign laws, rules, regulations, self-regulatory codes, circulars, and orders regarding anti-bribery and anti-corruption, including, but not limited to, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (‘FCPA’), the U.S. Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (‘AKS’), the UK’s Bribery Act 2010 (c.23), Brazil’s Clean Company Act 2014 (Law No. 12,846), China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission (‘NHFPC’) circulars No. 40 and No. 50, and similar international laws and regulations.
The company’s production and sales of products are further subject to regulations concerning the use of conflict minerals, various environmental regulations, such as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (the ‘Clean Water Act’), and others enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency (‘EPA’) or equivalent state agencies, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (the ‘Health Care Reform Law’). In the manufacture, sale, delivery, and servicing of the company’s products internationally, the company must also comply with various domestic and foreign import and export control and economic sanctions laws and regulations, including those administered by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (‘OFAC’), the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (‘BIS’), and similar foreign governmental agencies, which may require licenses or other authorizations for transactions relating to certain products, certain countries and regions, and/or with certain individuals and entities identified by the respective government.
The company is subject to domestic and foreign laws, rules, regulations, self-regulatory codes, circulars, and orders governing data privacy and transparency, including, but not limited to, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (‘HIPAA’) as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (the ‘HITECH Act’), the California Consumer Privacy Act, the California Privacy Rights Act, the European General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’), China’s Personal Information Protection Law (‘PIPL’), Brazil’s Lei Geral de Protecäo de Dados (‘LPGD’), the Physician Payments Sunshine Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, EU Directive 2002/58/EC (and implementing and local measures adopted thereunder), France’s Data Protection Act of 1978 (rev. 2004), and France’s Loi Bertrand, certain rules issued by Denmark’s Health and Medicines Authority, and similar international laws and regulations. Applicable privacy laws around the world restrict the use and disclosure of personal information, and mandate the adoption of standards relating to the privacy and security of individually identifiable information, such as data minimization, access control, providing transparent notice of its privacy practices, and respecting data subject rights. Privacy laws also require the reporting of certain breaches of individually identifiable information. The Physician Payments Sunshine Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act require the company to record all transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals and to report this data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for public disclosure.
Intellectual Property
Products manufactured by Dentsply Sirona are sold primarily under its own trade names and trademarks. Dentsply Sirona also owns and maintains more than 5,000 patents throughout the world and has also licensed a number of patents owned by others.
Employee Health & Safety Matters
The company’s actions are in line with Employee Health & Safety (‘EHS’) frameworks and certifications, such as OHSAS 1800 and ISO 45001.
Distributors
The company generates a substantial portion of its revenue through a limited number of distributors that provide important support to end-users. Together, the company’s two largest distributors, Patterson Companies, Inc. (‘Patterson’) and Henry Schein, Inc. (‘Henry Schein’), accounted for approximately 13% of its annual revenue for the year ended December 31, 2024.
History
The company, a Delaware corporation, was founded in 1877. It was incorporated in 1983. The company was formerly known as DENTSPLY International Inc. and changed its name to DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. in 2016.
