DEXIS.

Envista announced on 29 March 2022 that its KaVo imaging business would be rebranded DEXIS. The release says the DEXIS name, already known for intraoral radiography, would cover CBCT, handheld X-ray, intraoral scanners, sensors, and navigated surgery, and would bring together i-CAT, Gendex, Instrumentarium, SOREDEX, and NOMAD. It said DEXIS was present in more than 50 countries with about 1,000 employees and more than 150,000 imaging devices in use, and that DTX Studio would be the software for those images. Branding would move from KaVo to DEXIS through the rest of 2022 on different schedules by product and region.

On 20 April 2022 Envista said it had completed the purchase of Carestream Dental's intraoral scanner business, which would be rebranded DEXIS and would not include Carestream's imaging equipment or practice-management businesses. A scanner with a DEXIS badge after that date can therefore be the former Carestream scanner line. It is not the same device as an i-CAT CBCT or a NOMAD handheld.

DEXIS's about page says the brand was founded over 70 years ago and claims firsts that include a commercial ORTHOPANTOMOGRAPH, the Scanora seated X-ray, Cranex spiral tomography, and the DIGORA imaging plate. A 60-year imaging essay on the DEXIS site dates an orthopantomography unit to 1964 and says the ORTHOPANTOMOGRAPH entered the market in 1961, tracing the work to Yrjo Paatero. Those dates sit in the Finnish panoramic lineage now told under the DEXIS name. A Dentistry IQ note says the US DEXIS sensor company was founded in 1995 and that Danaher acquired it on 28 February 2005. The sensor company and the panoramic lineage are different histories that the 2022 brand now covers.

The about page's later figures, over 1,300 people and over 165,000 units, differ from the March 2022 release's about 1,000 people and over 150,000 devices. Quote the page and the year if you cite a count. Software is DTX Studio Clinic on the about page. One login does not make a sensor, a pano, and a scanner the same piece of hardware. The 60-year essay says DEXIS introduced the OP 3D LX in 2023 as a cone-beam system with 2D and 3D options. That is one extraoral unit, not the sensor line and not the scanner line from the Carestream deal. Keep the three service contracts separate if the practice owns all three. The March 2022 release also said distributor partnerships would continue. A rebrand does not automatically move your service contract to a new phone number. Ask the dealer which badge and which software version are on the unit you already own.

DEXIS suits a practice buying sensors, panoramic or CBCT equipment, or an intraoral scanner from the Envista imaging portfolio. Sensors are compared on the X-ray sensor guide.

CBCT, panoramic units, and cameras are on the CBCT guide, the panoramic guide, and the intraoral camera guide.

i-CAT, Gendex, NOMAD, Instrumentarium, SOREDEX, and the Carestream scanner line are not interchangeable because they share a 2022 logo. Parts and software modules differ.

DTX Studio is the software name in the rebrand release. It displays images. It does not generate them without the device.

The March 2022 release says the transition from KaVo badges would take the rest of that year and would vary by region. A unit still badged KaVo may be the same hardware family. Use the serial number for service.

The Carestream deal excluded imaging equipment and practice management. Do not assume a DEXIS CBCT came from that scanner acquisition.