---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000818479-25-000174"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XRAY"
cik: "0000818479"
company_name: "DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:10:37.146942+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dentsply Sirona awards $2M retention stock options to SVP/Chief Supply Chain Officer

## Summary
- Retention grant of stock options with grant-date fair value of $2,000,000 to Tony Johnson, SVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer.
- Options cliff-vest on third anniversary of grant date, subject to continuous employment.
- Half of options priced at fair market value (FMV) on grant date; half at 110% of FMV.
- Grant expected on second trading day after Q3 2025 10-Q filing; expires 10 years from grant date.
- Award intended to retain Johnson following recent CEO/CFO transition and recognize his performance.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000818479-25-000174
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XRAY
- cik: 0000818479
- company_name: DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/818479/000081847925000174/0000818479-25-000174-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/818479/000081847925000174/xray-20250919.htm

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