Dimple Desai
Dentist · Cerritos, CANPI 1013170034
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $139,311 of the $163,694 with a category attached, or 85.1%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Kulzer, LLC at 36.4% of the total. Among dentist clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 138 payments — averaging $1186.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kulzer, LLC$60K
- Ultradent Products Inc$25K
- Dentsply Sirona Inc$21K
- Henry Schein, Inc.$17K
- Clinician's Choice Dental Products Inc.$16K
- Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc.$7K
- plus $18K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$139,31185%
- Travel & lodging$17,49611%
- Food & beverage$5,5453%
- Gifts$1,1401%
- Entertainment$1110%
- Charitable contribution$900%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Kulzer, LLC | 20 | $59,646 |
| Ultradent Products Inc | 12 | $24,649 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 33 | $20,561 |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | 10 | $17,152 |
| Clinician's Choice Dental Products Inc. | 15 | $16,110 |
| Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc. | 13 | $7,341 |
| Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc | 3 | $6,291 |
| VOCO America Inc. | 9 | $5,513 |
| Den-mat Holdings, LLC | 2 | $4,000 |
| Sprintray Inc | 3 | $1,590 |
| Align Technology, Inc. | 13 | $449 |
| Tokuyama Dental America Inc. | 1 | $250 |
| Patterson Companies, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Orapharma, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| 3M Company | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- VENUS BULK FLOW ONE$28,954
- Opalescence$23,706
- VENUS PEARL PLT REFILL 20X0,2G A1$16,500
- IBOND UNIVERSAL$16,500
- VENUS DIAMOND FLOW PLT 20X0,20G - A1$13,669
- A.S.A.P. ALL SURFACE ACCESS POLISHERS 6-PACK REFILL (SMALL)$11,598
- SureSmile$6,765
- VOCO Retraction Paste$5,258
- RESTORIS$3,471
- DUAL PORT IMPRESSION GUN$3,471
- PARO NON-LATEX RUBBER DAM$3,471
- AFFINITY QUICK BITE 2PK$3,471
- Clinician Choice$758
- DENTSPLY$509
- V-Posil$223
- Admira Fusion$171
How this compares
$163,694 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 9,550 dentist providers in California.
Other dentist in Cerritos
- Todd EngelLadera Ranch$4.2M
- Jedediah HussThousand Oaks$1.3M
- John DiponzianoSan Leandro$904K
- Jeffrey RohdeSanta Barbara$593K
- Troy SchueddingWalnut Creek$468K
- Todd SnyderLaguna Niguel$427K
- Saima HasnainSacramento$415K
- August de OliveiraEncino$332K
- Brian NovyNewhall$297K
- Christopher HagenFountain Valley$289K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.