Device manufacturer, as written on reports

Dentsply: medical device reports filed with FDA

2,020 reports name it as the manufacturer of the device involved, 2006–2026.

Read first · FDA's statement on these data

Adverse event reports submitted to FDA do not undergo extensive validation or verification. Therefore, a causal relationship cannot be established between product and reactions listed in a report. While a suspected relationship may exist, it is not medically validated and should not be the sole source of information for clinical decision making or other assumptions about the safety or efficacy of a product. Additionally, it is important to remember that adverse event reports represent a small percentage of total usage numbers of a product. Common products may have a higher number of adverse events due to the higher total number of people using the product. openFDA, FDA

FDA adds: "Although MDRs are a valuable source of information, this passive surveillance system has limitations, including the potential submission of incomplete, inaccurate, untimely, unverified, or biased data. In addition, the incidence or prevalence of an event cannot be determined from this reporting system alone due to potential under-reporting of events and lack of information about frequency of device use." And: "MDR data alone cannot be used to establish rates of events, evaluate a change in event rates over time or compare event rates between devices. The number of reports cannot be interpreted or used in isolation to reach conclusions about the existence, severity, or frequency of problems associated with devices."

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2,020
reports naming it as manufacturer: 0% of all MAUDE reports; 708
reports, 12 months to August 2026: 266 in the 12 months before; 95.9%
classified as malfunction: 62.3% across all reports; 0.1%
classified as death, as reported: 0.9% across all reports

2,020 medical device reports received by FDA give Dentsply as the manufacturer of the device involved, 0% of the MAUDE database, from January 2006 to August 2026. Manufacturer names are as written on the report; subsidiaries and spelling variants may appear as separate names.

708 reports arrived in the 12 months to August 2026, up 166% from 266 in the 12 months before. FDA releases MAUDE data monthly; reports can arrive months after an event, so the newest months grow in later releases. The event types recorded are malfunction (95.9%), injury (4%) and death (0.1%). Manufacturers are required to report events they learn of, so a large manufacturer with many products in use files many reports. FDA states that "MDR data alone cannot be used to establish rates of events, evaluate a change in event rates over time or compare event rates between devices. The number of reports cannot be interpreted or used in isolation to reach conclusions about the existence, severity, or frequency of problems associated with devices." It adds that the reporting system "has limitations, including the potential submission of incomplete, inaccurate, untimely, unverified, or biased data."

Brands named most often

Brand	Device type	Reports	Latest 12 months	Classified as death
Protaper Nt Rotary File	File, pulp canal, endodontic	1	0	0%

Brands with a page on this site, ordered by report count for navigation only. FDA states that "MDR data alone cannot be used to establish rates of events, evaluate a change in event rates over time or compare event rates between devices. The number of reports cannot be interpreted or used in isolation to reach conclusions about the existence, severity, or frequency of problems associated with devices." It adds that the reporting system "has limitations, including the potential submission of incomplete, inaccurate, untimely, unverified, or biased data."

Device types

Product code	Device type	Reports	Share
ELC	Scaler, ultrasonic	1,308	64.8%
DZN	Instruments, dental hand	307	15.2%
EAP	Unit, x-ray, intraoral	286	14.2%
FXX	Mask, surgical	30	1.5%
ELW	Material, impression	11	0.5%
EMA	Cement, dental	8	0.4%
DZE	Implant, endosseous, root-form	5	0.2%
MED	Sterilant, medical devices	2	0.1%
DZA	Drill, dental, intraoral	1	0%
DZM	Needle, dental	1	0%

Reports by month, five years

FDA releases MAUDE data monthly; reports can arrive months after an event, so the newest months grow in later releases.

Event type

Death0.1%2

Injury4%80

Malfunction95.9%1,938

Other0%0

Not given0%0

Grey bar: all 26,136,888 MAUDE reports. Event type is the filer's classification and is not verified by FDA.

Questions about Dentsply reports

How many FDA device reports name Dentsply as manufacturer?

2,020 reports through August 2026, 708 of them in the latest 12 months.

Which of its brands appear most often?

Protaper Nt Rotary File (1).

Which device types does it report on?

scaler, ultrasonic (64.8%), instruments, dental hand (15.2%), unit, x-ray, intraoral (14.2%) and mask, surgical (1.5%).

Does a high count say something about the manufacturer?

Not by itself. Manufacturers must file a report for every event they become aware of, so report volume follows the number of devices in use. FDA states that "MDR data alone cannot be used to establish rates of events, evaluate a change in event rates over time or compare event rates between devices. The number of reports cannot be interpreted or used in isolation to reach conclusions about the existence, severity, or frequency of problems associated with devices." It adds that the reporting system "has limitations, including the potential submission of incomplete, inaccurate, untimely, unverified, or biased data."

Where this comes from. Counts are built from the openFDA Device Adverse Event (MAUDE) bulk export released 28 Sep 2026, which holds reports FDA received through 31 Aug 2026. Brand, generic and manufacturer names are as written on the reports; product code names come from FDA's device classification. Manufacturer names are pooled after company suffixes (Inc., LLC, GmbH and similar) are dropped; names that read as a person rather than an organisation are never published. No report narrative, lot number, patient detail or reporter identity is published. See the methodology and sources; FDA's record is authoritative, and corrections are handled within five working days.

Drug data (FAERS) through 30 Jun 2026; device data (MAUDE) through 31 Aug 2026. Not medical advice.