Here are five updates on dental companies from the last week.
On June 25, more than 300 U.S. Aspen Dental practices will provide free services to veterans. Aspen Dental is offering the services through its Healthy Mouth Movement, a program aimed at providing free care and oral health education to those in need.
Henry Schein donated more than 25,000 toothbrushes to nonprofit Timmy Global Health. The nonprofit's team of medical professionals and health science students provide care to underserved and isolated communities.
For the fiscal year 2015, Biolase reported deferred revenue of $3.155 million, according to Enterprise Leader.
Danaher has begun the process of splitting into two entities, with shareholders receiving one share of the spin-off, Fortive, for every two Danaher shares. Danaher will maintain its life sciences, diagnostics, dental, water quality and product identification segments, and Fortive will add on its measurement, industrial technologies and petroleum segments, according to Washington Business Journal.
On June 14, Patterson Companies announced a $0.2400 cash dividend. The dividend has a yield of nearly 1.98 percent, according to Trade Calls.
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