Sirona and Patterson Dental have extended and expanded their technology partnership with Pacific Dental Services (PDS).
Pacific Dental Services supports more than 300 dental practices in California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon, and Texas. As a group, PDS-supported offices have implemented Sirona's Cerec technology system and are the world's largest network of Cerec users having completed more than 500,000 Cerec restorations to date, according to the companies.
In addition to facilitating the use of Cerec equipment for its affiliated practices, PDS will recommend that its affiliated practices implement other Sirona technologies, including Schick by Sirona intraoral sensors, Sirona lasers, and Sirona extraoral panoramic imaging devices.
Given the significant number of PDS-supported owner-dentists who have chosen to adopt these technologies for their dental practices to date, combined with the anticipated growth in the number of PDS-supported offices, the parties anticipate that the number of PDS-supported offices utilizing Sirona technologies could exceed 600 during the life of the agreement, the companies noted in a press release.
