DS World 2024 Interview with Dentsply Sirona Chief Technology Officer Kevin Boyle

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Hello. Kevin Boyle, I am the Chief Technology Officer here at Dentsply Sirona. We're here at Dentsply Sirona World 2024 excited to be launching some really new, novel innovations. Obviously, Primescan 2 is the big innovation launch that we have here. And what's really special about that product is how it's connected to our DS Core infrastructure.

So, it's a cloud-native device, and it offers unparalleled flexibility and versatility for our customers, and it's really going to enable connected digital dentistry and bring us into the new era of performing dental procedures.

That's right. So Primescan 2 offers a new solution whereby you can take that initial image, that initial scan, and then it flows through the rest of our digital workflow, and it does that through DS Core. So, when it comes to wanting to do SureSmile procedures, do implant procedures, whatever it is that the dentist needs to do, it's now all seamlessly integrated into 1 solution within DS Core. If you look at the market today and the current workflows, 50% of dentists do analog procedures—they take a dental impression. And Primescan 2 will allow them to eliminate that part of the procedure, improve that user experience. It's a much quicker process, much more accurate, and then they can continue the digital journey through the rest of the procedures.

The patient benefits are enormous. So, from not having to have a dental impression and have that in your mouth and go through that type of an experience, all the way through to the seamless planning, the communication canvas, the patient knows exactly what the procedure is going to be, how long it's going to take, what the outcome is going to look like. And it gives them all that information that they need up front. Then they can take all that information from DS Core and bring it home with them. They can access that information directly. They can talk about it with their loved ones. They can plan out what they want to do. And it just offers them a lot more transparency and gives them a lot more flexibility as they as they think through what they're going to do as next steps.