SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND RESTATEMENT	9 Months Ended
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND RESTATEMENT	Sep. 30, 2022
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND RESTATEMENT	SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND RESTATEMENT Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”) and the rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair statement of the results for interim periods have been included. Results for interim periods should not be considered indicative of results for a full year. These financial statements and related notes contain the accounts of DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. and subsidiaries (“Dentsply Sirona” or the “Company”) on a consolidated basis and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes included in the Company’s most recent Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2021, as amended and filed on November 7, 2022. Recently Concluded Investigation As previously disclosed, the Audit and Finance Committee of the Company's Board of Directors (the "Audit and Finance Committee"), assisted by independent legal counsel and forensic accountants, commenced an internal investigation in March 2022 of allegations regarding certain financial reporting matters submitted by current and former employees of the Company. The investigation was conducted in two components, one pertaining to allegations regarding the Company’s use of incentives to sell products to certain distributors in North America in the third and fourth quarters of 2021 (the "North American Investigation") and another to analyze the increase in returns of products in China during the fourth quarter of 2021 identified by the Company (the "China Investigation"). In the North America Investigation, the Audit and Finance Committee concluded that there was no evidence of intentional wrongdoing or fraud. The Audit and Finance Committee found that certain former members of senior management, including the Company's former Chief Executive Officer and former Chief Financial Officer, violated provisions of the Company's Code of Ethics and Business Conduct. In addition, these former members of senior management did not maintain and promote an appropriate control environment focused on compliance in areas of the Company’s business, nor did they sufficiently promote, monitor or enforce adherence to the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct. The North America Investigation found that certain former members of senior management, including the former Chief Executive Officer and the former Chief Financial Officer created a culture where employees did not feel comfortable raising concerns without fear of retaliation. In addition, the North America Investigation substantiated certain allegations regarding inappropriate tone at the top by the former Chief Executive Officer and the former Chief Financial Officer. Based on the China Investigation, the Audit and Finance Committee concluded that members of the Company's local commercial team in China, as well as the head of the Company's Asia-Pacific commercial organization, committed intentional wrongdoing by failing to provide requested information to the Company's local accounting team, by obstructing the work of the accounting team and by lacking truthfulness in providing information to the Company and to the Audit and Finance Committee as part of the China Investigation. The China Investigation also determined that these actions by the certain members of the Company's local commercial team in China, as well as the former Chief Financial Officer and the head of the Company's Asia-Pacific commercial organization, violated the Company's Code of Ethics and Business Conduct. On October 29, 2022, the Audit and Finance Committee determined that its investigation was complete. Prior Restatement and Other Corrections of Previously Issued Consolidated Financial Statements The interim consolidated financial statements include previously-made corrections to the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2021 which were presented in Note 1 to the interim consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for these same periods in the Company's Form 10-Q/A filed on November 7, 2022. This restatement corrected for errors related to certain customer incentive programs as well as the accounting and assumptions in the determination of estimates related to the Company’s sales returns provisions, warranty reserve provisions and variable consideration. In addition, a failure to appropriately account for certain product returns and/or exchanges identified as part of the China investigation referred to above resulted in an overstatement of Net sales in the third quarter of 2021 of approximately $4 million which should have been recorded in the fourth quarter of 2021, and was also reflected in the restated interim financial statements for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2021. In conjunction with making these corrections, the Company has also made certain other restatements and revisions for previously identified errors. The restatement from these collective errors resulted in a decrease to Net sales by $29 million, a decrease to Gross profit by $22 million, a decrease to Operating income of $27 million and a decrease to Diluted EPS by $0.09 per share from amounts previously reported for the three-month period ended September 30, 2021. The restatement resulted in a decrease to Net sales by $35 million, a decrease to Gross profit by $25 million, a decrease to Operating income of $32 million and a decrease to Diluted EPS by $0.13 per share from amounts previously reported for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2021. In order to correct these errors, management previously restated the Company's consolidated financial statements as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 which are presented as the comparative periods in the accompanying consolidated financial statements, and also restated as necessary the comparative periods presented in the related notes included herein to correct these accounting errors. For details of these restatements on the previously issued financial statements for these periods, refer to Note 1 of the interim consolidated financial statements in the Company's Form 10-Q/A filed on November 7, 2022. The Company also restated its consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 in its Form 10-K/A filed on November 7, 2022. Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements in conformity with US GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of Net sales and expense during the reporting period. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. Specifically, for the three months ended September 30, 2022, some of these estimates and assumptions continue to be based on an ongoing evaluation of expected future impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. The full extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic will directly or indirectly have a negative material impact on the Company's financial condition, liquidity, or results of operations in future periods is highly uncertain and difficult to predict. More specifically, although demand for the Company’s products has largely recovered from the impact of rigorous preventive measures implemented at the outset of the pandemic, it continues to be affected by social distancing guidelines, dental practice safety protocols which reduce patient traffic, and some lingering patient reluctance to seek dental care. Also, impacts from the pandemic continue to be experienced in the form of shortages for specific materials such as electronic components, higher related transportation costs, and labor shortages. Throughout 2022, the Company has continued to experience supply chain constraints, which has impacted its ability to timely produce and deliver certain products, and has also resulted in increases in shipping rates. In the third quarter the Company has been further impacted by deteriorating macroeconomic conditions more generally, including rising global interest rates and inflationary pressures which have raised the price of inputs, impacted the discretionary spending behavior of our customers, and introduced new competitive challenges. To address these issues, the Company has taken steps to mitigate the impact of these trends, including continued emphasis on cost reduction and supply chain efficiencies. However, uncertainties remain regarding how long these impacts will continue or whether future variants of the virus may have an adverse impact in affected markets. Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued ASU No. 2020-04 "Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting", which was subsequently amended by ASU No. 2021-01 "Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Scope" in January 2021. The new standard provides optional expedients and exceptions to contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference the London Interbank Offer Rate ("LIBOR") or another rate expected to be discontinued due to the reference rate reform. The amendments in this standard were effective upon issuance and generally can be applied to contract modifications made or evaluated through December 31, 2022. The Company does not expect this standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. In October 2021, the FASB issued ASU No. 2021-08, "Business Combinations: Accounting for Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities from Contracts with Customers (Topic 805)", which requires contract assets and liabilities acquired in a business combination to be recognized and measured by the acquirer on the acquisition date in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, as if it had originated the contracts. The current requirement to measure contract assets and contract liabilities acquired in a business combination at fair value differs from the current approach. This standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently assessing the impact of this standard on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. Seasonality Our business is subject to seasonal fluctuations. Our sales and profits are typically the highest during the third and fourth quarters due to DS World, our annual dental conference, which historically has occurred near the end of September. As a result, a disproportionate amount of operating cash flows is generated in the fourth quarter of our fiscal year. Despite a significant portion of these sales occurring in the third and fourth quarter, there are operating expenses, principally advertising and promotional expenses, throughout the year. Because of the seasonal nature of the Company's business, the results of operations for any fiscal quarter will not necessarily be indicative of results to be expected for other quarters or a full fiscal year.