Dentsply Sirona
The world's largest diversified manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies.
Dentsply Sirona — Our CompanyDentsply Sirona is the world's largest diversified manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, positioning itself under the tagline "The Dental Solutions Company." It develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive offering of dental and oral health products and other consumable medical devices under a portfolio of world-class brands, with origins dating back more than a century. The company was created in 2016 through the merger of DENTSPLY International and Sirona Dental Systems.
The company offers a complete line of products spanning consumables, equipment, technology, and specialty products. This includes general dental supplies and devices, CAD/CAM restoration systems (CEREC and inLab), dental restorative products, digital intra-oral, panoramic and 3D imaging systems, dental treatment centers, hand pieces, hygiene systems, and specialty products in orthodontics, endodontics and implants.
Dentsply Sirona is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina (with an international headquarters in Salzburg, Austria), and its shares are listed on Nasdaq under the symbol XRAY. It markets products in over 120 countries, operates factories in 21 countries, and had approximately 15,000 employees as of December 2023. Daniel Scavilla became President and CEO effective August 1, 2025, succeeding Simon Campion.
Innovation is central to the company: it spends over $125 million annually to advance dentistry and maintains the industry's largest R&D platform with over 600 scientists and engineers. Its Dentsply Sirona Academy educates over 400,000 professionals annually across nearly 15,000 courses in over 90 countries, making advances in dental technology highly relevant to its core business.
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