Dentsply Doubles Dental Implant Biz With $1.8 Billion Astra Tech Acquisition
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Dentsply will roughly double its dental implant business through its purchase of Astra Tech from drug firm AstraZeneca in a $1.8 billion deal announced June 22.
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