Healthy Smiles

Bringing Out the Best in Others

We are steadfast in our responsibility to support the well-being of people at the heart of our business: our employees, our customers, and local communities around the world, and to deliver our mission to create healthy smiles.

In recognition of our ongoing work across CSR, clinical education, and D&I, Newsweek and Statista named Dentsply Sirona as one of “America’s Most Responsible Companies 2021.” Although honored by this recognition, we acknowledge that our work is just beginning, and have set out ambitious goals to help us on our journey.

Diversity And Inclusion (D&I)

  • Strive to achieve global gender parity by 2025
  • Increase female and ethnic representation in Director+ population
  • Leverage available talent pool in all geographic markets
  • Increase Employee Resource Group (ERG) participation

Gender Pay Parity

  • Work to achieve gender pay parity (equal pay for equal work geographically) by 2025
  • Establish annual auditing practices, strategies and plans to address gender pay gaps
  • Completed baseline analysis focused on total cash and equity compensation and plan to assess annually

Talent Management

  • Continuously increase employee engagement with survey participation and increase employee engagement results
  • Increase global professional development opportunities by launching leadership development program
  • Expand early career opportunities by increasing participation in early career programs
  • Deploy global online learning system available to all employees and increase number of courses offered

Health and Safety

  • Achieve top decile injury and illness prevention/avoidance rate by 2025 according to OSHA Recordable Injury and Illness Rate & American Chemistry Council’s similarly sized category member company rate as benchmark target

Improving Oral Health and Community Engagement

  • Launch a strategic, global charitable partnership in 2021
  • Year-on-year increase in R&D spend
  • Establish a company-wide global social responsibility framework in 2021
  • Establish a consistent global sales training framework by end of 2021
  • Continue to pioneer developments in clinician education to meet the needs of customers

Healthy Smiles Case Studies
Empowering Our People
Supporting Our Customers
Community Initiatives

Exploring Our Other Sustainability Pillars

Healthy Planet

We pledge to protect the planet with our sustainability program.

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Healthy Business

Our employees are the backbone of our business, which means we're working to keep them safe.

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