From a private equity investment to the investigation of a controversial dental device, here are 16 dental technology updates Becker's reported on in April:
1. Friendship Dental Laboratories partnered with Frontier Dental Lab Group and received a private equity investment from O2 Investment Partners.
2. ZimVie, Zimmer Biomet's spine and dental spinoff, opened a training institute for dental practitioners in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
3. Medical device company Align Technology reported $943.1 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2023.
4. Convergent Dental, a dental technology and equipment company, received a $40 million growth capital investment from Trinity Capital.
5. Hanife Bayraktaroglu, DDS, completed more than 110 dental procedures with the Yomi robot in the past year.
6. Orthodontic artificial intelligence company Dental Monitoring filed a lawsuit against Get-Grin, alleging two infringements of its patents.
7. SprintRay partnered with Braces On Demand, an online platform for in-office 3D printing for orthodontic fixed appliances.
8. Dental 3D printing company LuxCreo launched LuxAlign, a same-day clear aligner printing system.
9. OrthoFX received FDA clearance for its NiTime Aligners.
10. Neocis launched a bone reduction feature for its Yomi dental robot.
11. A team of biomedical engineers at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in Rapid City is working on a prototype to allow dentists to perform remote robotic dentistry.
12. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee and the U.S. Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation into the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance.
13. Ryaz Ansari, DDS, an oral surgeon in West Hartford, Conn., utilizes the Yomi dental implant robot during 80 percent of his dental implant procedures.
14. A first-year dental student at the Rutgers University School of Dental Medicine in Newark, N.J., was granted a patent for his dental aerosol protection system.
15. The American Dental Association is asking the public and dental professionals to report concerns with certain palatal expanders to the FDA.
16. Dental Innovation Alliance made its first investments in dental technology companies UptimeHealth and Relu.