Modern new facilities to educate the future of dentistry
To build on an already strong Clinical Education outreach, the Company is investing in new Dentsply Sirona Academy facilities around the world that further enable the hosting of experts and guests. Recent openings in North America and Asia as well as an expansion in Europe are broadening the Company’s reach with its target audience of dental professionals, helping them provide the best care for their patients.
Grand opening of Dentsply Sirona Academy Charlotte
Employees and guests celebrated the opening of the newest Dentsply Sirona Academy facility in Charlotte on May 24, 2018. The opening ceremony featured a live procedure performed by Dr. Tarun Agarwal. Dr. Agarwal showed off the new facility’s state of the art audio visual capabilities by providing implant therapy for a patient in the dental operatory on the fourth floor as the audience watched the procedure in the auditorium on the first floor of the facility.
CEO Don Casey cut the ceremonial ribbon to loud applause from the enthusiastic attendees and welcomed guests to tour the ultra-modern space. As part of an ongoing effort to expand its already extensive Clinical Education reach, the new facility will enable contact with more than 10,000 dental professionals each year. The new Charlotte facility is an impressive 28,525 sq. feet (2650 sq. meters) and accommodates classrooms, a 288-seat auditorium, seven clinical rooms, two simulation labs and a dental office design center. It can also be booked for private trainings, conferences, workshops and special events.
The opening of this facility represents our commitment to providing the highest-quality training opportunities to all dental professionals, including dentists, hygienists, assistants, lab technicians and dental office staff.
New Showroom in Charlotte
Expansion in Bensheim
The Dentsply Sirona Academy in Bensheim has been completely refurbished and significantly enlarged to support the growing educational and training programs at this location. The expansion features a new showroom made up of three clinical rooms styled to look and feel like a dental clinic. Dentsply Sirona has created the perfect environment for Clinical Education by designing the space to enable realistic scenarios where dentists get to experience entire workflows and treatment solutions. The Academy can accommodate up to 10,000 professional consultants, dentists, dental technicians, and employees of dental practices at once. A festive ribbon cutting ceremony took place at the Academy on June 6, 2018. Dominique Legros, Senior Vice President Technologies and Equipment Segment and Michael Geil, General Manager of Dentsply Sirona Bensheim & Group Vice President Treatment Centers, gave the opening speech. Michael Glemser, Head of the Dentsply Sirona Academy in Bensheim led a tour of the brand-new showroom and Clinical Education facilities. Partners and the media both went away from the opening deeply impressed with the digital focus of the Company and the holistic concept it brings to the market through overall dental solutions rather than as ad hoc products. Members of the press could conduct hands-on demonstrations on manikins to try out CEREC for themselves. The opening ceremony had a huge impact on the Company’s perception by the media and helped to solidify Dentsply Sirona’s image. The new rooms are also designed for making product presentations that highlight the Company’s ability to provide complete dental solutions for its customers. A customer’s experience can be tailored by showing all of the possible solutions that a product enables.
Dentsply Sirona Academy Bensheim
The expansion of the Academy is ongoing and additional rooms will be built to further support the demonstration of realistic scenarios for additional product groups such as Treatment Centers, Imaging, and CAD/CAM. It will offer space for around 10,000 training course participants annually from 2019.
New showroom opens in Shanghai
On a Monday in late March, Dentsply Sirona held an event to celebrate the opening of its new Dentsply Sirona Academy and showroom in Shanghai. Over 100 guests joined the celebration and were treated to live music, a magic show and a buffet. After an introduction from the product managers, guests heard speeches from Mr. Zhou Haiying, Deputy Director of the Jing’an District, as well as from Niels Plate, General Manager and Country Leader.
In Shanghai the new showroom was opened with a celebration including over 100 guests
The new showroom is cleverly designed to give customers the experience of a complete workflow. The space is modern and elegant and aims to give customers the feel of entering a real clinic by first walking through the imaging systems, and then passing the treatment centers, instruments, CAD/CAM and endodontics. A dental academy classroom and a dental lab complete the new showroom. The training center’s two rooms can each accommodate over 40 people and can also be combined into a single space for groups of up to 90.