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Shiva Kumar, Co-Founder & CTO and Dr. Arash Hakhamian, Co-Founder & CEO, DentuluBridging the gap between patients and dental professionals has been a longstanding challenge for not only the disabled, geriatric, and even emergency patients but now is a trend with busy professionals who last year alone lost over 164 million work hours going to and from the dentist.
With the help of the ADA and other governing bodies who have lobbied congress to pass more relaxed laws, the emergence of mobile dentistry has been able to significantly reduce those barriers of traditional dental care settings, allowing patients to obtain dental care from the comfort of their preferred location and time.
While most dental providers have taken a backseat to this emerging trend, others have attempted to solve the problems and logistics of providing mobile care by investing in bulky and expensive trucks and vans outfitted as mobile dental offices. Taking a completely different stance enters California-based company, Dentulu. Offering the world’s first intuitive on-demand mobile dental app, Dentulu maintains an in-house, licensed mobile dentistry team that stringently adheres to all the healthcare regulatory standards and affirms the same sanitary conditions and infection control policies of stationery dental clinics while offering its dental services through the use of compact dental equipment that can work in any 10x10 room or larger.
“We want to improve access to care and induce a new wave of patients taking control of their oral healthcare through the use of mobile technology,” states Dr. Hakhamian, who has provided mobile dentistry to the rich and famous throughout his career.
We want to improve access to care and induce a new wave of patients taking control of their oral healthcare
Driven by this pursuit, the company offers a multitude of mobile dental services, including dental cleanings, whitenings, complete mouth X-rays and oral exams, cancer screening, clear aligners and even emergency dental services. In fact, Dentulu’s mobile dental clinic on-the-go is so simplified that users can download the Dentulu mobile app and reserve a dental professional to any location of their choosing with similar features to the Uber app which allows payments, reviews, location tracking, and even scheduling to be performed all from the convenience of their handheld device.
For the first time in history, patients can now download the Dentulu mobile app and reserve a dental professional to their home or even send one to their college bound child’s dorm room while tracking everything from their phone. Businesses are jumping on the bandwagon and adding mobile dentistry to their corporate wellness programs. The demand is so great that Dentulu is actively seeking additional funding to bring this service to the rest of the Nation and eventually to the whole world.
Dentulu’s vision to provide dentistry on demand stretches far beyond just mobile dental care as one of the leading providers for virtual dentistry. “Video conferencing through our app allows for video consults, follow ups, emergency care and much more without the physical presence of a dentist which complement our mobile services allowing a dentist to remotely monitor our hygienists providing preventative care to our patients,” says Dr. Hakhamian. These benefits spurred the company to implement Teledentistry as a core service on its mobile app. Dentulu’s HIPAA-compliant teledentistry portal enables patients to communicate and share files (images and videos) of their dental issues with virtual tele-dentists.
Possibly the most exciting and revolutionary addition to Dentulu’s mission to change dentistry is the launch of its range of intraoral cameras directed to consumers and referral sources to dentists. For the first time in history, dentists are actually able to see inside a patient’s mouth thousands of miles away through the use of high definition cameras priced less than $50 which connect through the mobile app. These cameras resembling a toothbrush will enable a tele-dentist to have a clear view of the patient’s mouth and examine their dental issues effectively and accurately and can set the tone to incorporate artificial intelligence in diagnosing pathologies remotely. Dentulu is releasing the cameras at the end of this month, which can be purchased from Amazon or on their website at www.dentulu.com. “We are continuously working to achieve our moonshot aim of establishing Dentulu as the go-to dental app in everyone’s smartphone and look forward to changing the world and how it views dentistry,” concludes Dr. Hakhamian.
Company
Dentulu
Management
Shiva Kumar, Co-Founder & CTO and Dr. Arash Hakhamian, Co-Founder & CEO, Dentulu
Description
The company offers an on-demand mobile dental app to serve and empower both dental professionals and patients across the world with proprietary software that bridges the gap between the two. Apart from mobile dentistry, the company also offers teledentistry to patients. Dentulu’s HIPAA-compliant teledentistry portal enables patients to communicate and share files (images and videos) of their dental issues with a tele-dentist. In addition to providing its dental services to individual patients, Dentulu also extends its unique services to corporate firms. The company’s licensed dentists can be reserved to come to a workplace and provide its employees with dental treatments
Dentulu News
Dentulu Announces National Partnership with SOTA Imaging, Elevating Teledentistry Platform with Best-in-Class Imaging
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Dentulu, the leading provider of innovative Teledentistry solutions, is thrilled to announce a strategic national partnership with SOTA Imaging, a renowned name in the dental industry. This partnership will bring together Dentulu's cutting-edge Teledentistry platform with SOTA Imaging's exceptional imaging services, cloud-based imaging software and hardware, delivering an unparalleled experience for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) users. Both SOTA Imaging and Dentulu received the Cellerant Best-of-Class designations at the American Dental Association in their respective services.
Dentulu has selected SOTA Imaging as the premier imaging provider in the dental sector and has commenced the integration of SOTA Imaging into its expanding dashboard, along with other carefully chosen technologies. The collaboration between Dentulu and SOTA Imaging underscores their shared dedication to advancing Teledentistry and furnishing advanced solutions to dental professionals and patients. Through the incorporation of SOTA Imaging's exceptional services and top-tier cloud-based imaging software, SOTA Cloud, into Dentulu's platform, both companies aspire to transform the dental experience and enhance the availability of quality oral care.
Through this collaboration, users of Dentulu can now take advantage of SOTA Imaging's cutting-edge imaging capabilities seamlessly within Dentulu's comprehensive dashboard. This integration empowers dentists, healthcare facilities, and medical practitioners to effortlessly capture and analyze high-quality dental images within the Dentulu platform, streamlining diagnostics and elevating patient care. By integrating SOTA Imaging's Cloud, renowned for its advanced technology, Dentulu ensures its users have access to precise and comprehensive visual data, thus facilitating more accurate diagnoses and treatment planning. This partnership also extends accessibility to the majority of dental practice management software that SOTA Cloud integrates with, as well as to Pearl’s AI pathology detection tool, "Second Opinion."
"We are thrilled to partner with SOTA Imaging, a recognized leader in dental imaging solutions," said Dr. Arash Hakhamian, CEO and Co-Founder of Dentulu." At Dentulu, our mission is to leverage technology to improve access to oral healthcare for all. By joining forces with SOTA Imaging and Pearl AI, we are taking a significant step towards achieving this goal with proven leaders and the industry's best. SOTA's commitment to innovation and exceptional image quality with its line of intraoral cameras and sensors aligns perfectly with our vision of delivering the highest standard of care through our Teledentistry platform."
Dentulu's B2B clientele, which includes dental clinics, hospitals, mobile practices, and healthcare establishments, will experience the advantages of seamlessly incorporating SOTA Imaging's robust imaging solutions into Dentulu's extensive dashboard. By utilizing Dentulu's Teledentistry platform in conjunction with SOTA Imaging's advanced technology, dental professionals can deliver precise remote diagnoses, extending their influence and enhancing patient outcomes. Consumers will also reap the rewards of the amalgamation between Dentulu's Teledentistry network, SOTA's imaging capabilities, and Pearl AI's Second Opinions, accessible from nearly any internet-enabled device. Patients will have the capability to upload their images and x-rays via Dentulu, receiving secondary evaluations from both Artificial Intelligence and licensed dentists through the integrated SOTA system.
"Our partnership with Dentulu represents an exciting opportunity to combine our expertise in dental imaging with Dentulu's forward-thinking Teledentistry solutions," said Albert Kim, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at SOTA Imaging. "By integrating SOTA services Cloud’s truly cloud-based software into Dentulu's Teledentistry platform, we are empowering dental professionals to provide exceptional care, regardless of location. We are proud to be part of this innovative collaboration that will reshape the dental landscape."
In its ongoing efforts to elevate its Teledentistry platform using the finest entities and technologies available in dentistry, Dentulu's collaboration with SOTA Imaging reinforces its dedication to providing outstanding dental care to millions of patients worldwide through remote means. This partnership empowers Dentulu to broaden its imaging prowess, facilitating an all-encompassing and smooth dental journey for both dental practitioners and patients.