John West
Endodontics · Tacoma, WANPI 1043441686
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $8,475,757 of the $8,555,287 with a category attached, or 99.1%. Dentsply Sirona Inc accounts for 74.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,593,028 and has fallen 66.7% since, to $531,218 in 2025. Among endodontics clinicians in WA 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 247 payments — averaging $34,637 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Dentsply Sirona Inc$6.4M
- Maillefer Instruments Holding Sarl$1.5M
- Tulsa Dental Products LLC$568K
- VDW GmbH$55K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$31K
- Carestream Dental, LLC$24K
- plus $6K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$8,475,75799%
- Consulting fees$24,4150%
- Speaking & faculty fees$540%
- Travel & lodging$16,5650%
- Food & beverage$1,9330%
- Education$1170%
- Gifts$31,6470%
- Ownership interest$4,7980%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 118 | $6,378,975 |
| Maillefer Instruments Holding Sarl | 23 | $1,491,739 |
| Tulsa Dental Products LLC | 85 | $567,523 |
| VDW GmbH | 4 | $55,054 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $31,463 |
| Carestream Dental, LLC | 1 | $24,415 |
| J. Morita USA, Inc. | 2 | $4,798 |
| Dentsply IH Inc. | 5 | $861 |
| Sonendo Inc | 2 | $158 |
| Dentsply US Prosthetics LLC | 1 | $96 |
| Dentsply Canada Ltd | 1 | $82 |
| Septodont Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Envista Holdings Corporation | 2 | $44 |
| Ultradent Products Inc | 1 | $26 |
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.
- PROTAPER$2,625,880
- WAVEONE GOLD GLIDER$1,894,601
- WaveOne$985,612
- ProTaper Universal$960,304
- WaveOne Gold Conform Fit$592,351
- PROGLIDER$467,513
- CALAMUS$430,570
- Endodontic Dentistry$397,315
- ProTaper Ultimate Treatment Covience Kit$133,631
- PROergo$31,463
- Tri Auto ZX2$4,798
- Protaper Ultimate$2,820
- Gentle Wave Root Canal therapy console and handpiece$103
How this compares
$8,555,287 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 157 endodontics providers in Washington.
Other endodontics in Tacoma
- Jordan WestTacoma$31K
- Jason WestTacoma$31K
- Loubna PlaTacoma$18K
- Roy KaldestadTacoma$7K
- Richard SimcockBellingham$97K
- Nestor CohencaKirkland$29K
- Theron EichenbergerRedmond$14K
- Scott GeorgeVancouver$14K
- Willis GabelIssaquah$8K
- Chao ShenVancouver$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.