Henry Schein Dental.

Henry Schein's corporate history page says Henry and Esther Schein opened a storefront pharmacy in Queens, New York, in 1932, and that the company now describes itself as a Fortune 500 provider of health care products and services to office-based dental and medical practitioners. The same page, written around the 90-year mark, says the company serves about 1 million customers, has about 25,000 Team Schein members, and has operations or affiliates in 34 countries and territories. A later securities filing repeats the Melville headquarters, more than 25,000 people, and 34 countries.

The contact page prints corporate headquarters at 135 Duryea Road, Melville, NY 11747, telephone 1-631-843-5500. A 2015 company booklet says Stanley M. Bergman was chairman and CEO and describes the move from the Queens shop to Long Island. An older company history says the headquarters and telemarketing office moved to Melville in 1994. The contact page is the address to use now.

Henry Schein is a distributor. The history page and the HDA interview with Brad Connett, then CEO of the North America Distribution Group, call it a provider of products and services to office-based practitioners, including a 1995 Nasdaq listing. The company does not describe itself on those pages as the factory for the chairs, burs, or alginates on a typical invoice. Keep the manufacturer name and the Schein account name on separate lines of the equipment record.

The history page says the network offers more than 300 solutions. That figure is the company's description of breadth, not a count of products made in Melville. Dental practices use Schein to order supplies and, often, to coordinate equipment. The specification sheet still comes from the manufacturer named on the device. The HDA interview says the company automated distribution in 1984, expanded into the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Spain in 1990, and listed on Nasdaq in 1995. Those milestones explain the scale of the distributor. They do not name the brand of alginate in the carton. Read the label, then ask the branch which warehouse will ship it and which account number belongs on the purchase order.

Henry Schein suits a practice that wants a global distributor for supplies and equipment projects. Category research starts in the equipment directory and the office products directory.

Everyday materials still have manufacturer guides. See the alginate guide and the amalgamator guide when those categories are the order.

A manufacturer page tells you who builds a product. A Henry Schein invoice tells you who sold it and often who delivered it. Both names belong on the record.

Chairs and handpieces from any factory can appear on a Schein quote. Use the chair guide to define the room, then ask Schein which brands it sells and services in that category.

Corporate headquarters on the contact page is 135 Duryea Road, Melville, NY 11747, phone 1-631-843-5500. Confirm which branch serves your state before you promise a delivery date.

The 1932 founding and the 1995 public listing are corporate history. They do not choose a composite brand. Read the box.