Dentsply Sirona Inc. filed a Form 8-K/A (Amendment No. 1) on August 7, 2026, to correct an administrative error in the EDGAR description tag of a Current Report originally submitted on August 6, 2026.

Key Highlights

  • Sole purpose of amendment: To correct the EDGAR description tag, which was inadvertently submitted as "Current report, Item 9.01" rather than the correct tag "Current report, Items 2.02 and 9.01."
  • No other changes: According to the filing, "No other changes have been made to the original report."
  • Underlying event: The original report disclosed financial results for the company's second fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2026.
  • Press release: A press release regarding those financial results was issued on August 6, 2026, and furnished as Exhibit 99.1.
  • Signatory: The amendment was signed by John C. Fortson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, dated August 7, 2026.

Dentsply Sirona Amends August 6 Filing to Fix EDGAR Description Tag

Dentsply Sirona Inc., whose common stock (par value $0.01 per share) trades on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC under the symbol XRAY, filed a Form 8-K/A on August 7, 2026, as Amendment No. 1 to a Current Report originally filed on August 6, 2026. According to the filing, the amendment's sole purpose is administrative: the original report was submitted to EDGAR with a description tag reading "Current report, Item 9.01" when it should have read "Current report, Items 2.02 and 9.01."

The filing states that no substantive changes were made to the original report. The underlying disclosure, covered under Item 2.02 (Results of Operations and Financial Condition), relates to a press release the company issued on August 6, 2026, regarding its financial results for the second fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2026. That press release was furnished as Exhibit 99.1. The filing notes that the information provided under Item 2.02, including Exhibit 99.1, "shall not be deemed 'filed' for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934."

Item 9.01 of the amendment lists the exhibits: Exhibit 99.1, described as the press release issued August 6, 2026, and Exhibit 104, a Cover Page Interactive Data File embedded within the Inline XBRL Document. The amendment was signed on behalf of Dentsply Sirona Inc. by John C. Fortson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

What Was Disclosed

Dentsply Sirona filed an amended Current Report to correct a mislabeled EDGAR description tag on its August 6, 2026, filing. The amendment confirms that Items 2.02 and 9.01 were both covered, with no other changes to the original report.