Dental Care Alliance Bringing Overjet AI to More Than 400 Practices

Dental Care Alliance Bringing Overjet AI to More Than 400 Practices | Image Credit: © Overjet

One of the nation's leading dental support organizations (DSOs) is rolling out Overjet's artificial intelligence (AI) to its alliance of more than 400 practices.

Dental Care Alliance (DCA) announced last week its collaboration with Overjet, a leader in dental AI. Overjet’s AI platform for dentistry is FDA-cleared technology trained on millions of x-rays and continuously tested by a team of leading dentists. The technology enables Overjet to detect, outline, and quantify oral diseases with millimeter-level precision. In addition to analyzing x-rays, Overjet is also a helpful tool for educating patients, since it highlights cavities, calculus, and other pathologies with colorful overlays that patients can understand. The result is greater trust in the clinician, the company says, which leads to higher case acceptance.

The combination of sheer size and technical sophistication makes this launch one of the most ambitious deployments of dental AI, the two groups state. But for DCA, the goal remains the same — giving every patient the best possible care.

"Transforming dental care through AI isn't just about innovation or technology," Jason Hefelinger, CEO of Dental Care Alliance, says in a press release. "It's about empowering our supported providers, advancing precision, personalizing patient experiences, and pioneering a new era of oral health. We are proud to partner with Overjet to be the first DSO to implement this game-changing platform across our family of more than 400 affiliated practices."

Working Well Together

DCA's leadership recognizes that its success with AI will depend on how well its people understand and implement the new technology. The large DSO, headquartered in Florida, says that was the motivation for DCA's unique and comprehensive rollout plan, which is carefully designed to maximize Overjet's impact across all of its providers.

Through a combination of in-depth training sessions and study clubs led by Overjet's experienced clinical team, deep integrations with providers' existing systems, and high-profile promotional campaigns, DCA is setting an example for how to implement dental AI at scale.

This organization-wide expansion builds on DCA's initial partnership with Overjet that began in the spring of 2022, and which has produced overwhelmingly positive reactions from both its providers and patients, the organization states. DCA has integrated multiple technologies designed to elevate dental care through teamwork and technology and has been recognized by the industry for its drive to improve and affect meaningful change across its growing network of dental practices, according to the DSO.

Beyond the dental chair, the platform will help DCA's providers grow their practices—from streamlining morning meetings to identifying opportunities for care.

"The most successful DSOs of tomorrow will be those that embrace AI today," adds Wardah Inam, CEO of Overjet. "From the very beginning of our partnership, DCA's leaders wanted to do more than just keep pace with the latest technology. They wanted to push dentistry forward. With this milestone deployment of AI, Dental Care Alliance will set the new standard for what patients expect at the dentist."

DCA currently supports over 400 allied practices and supports over 900 dentists across 24 states. DCA's allied practices represent all dental specialties and treat patients under more than 150 brand names.

Founded by experts from MIT and Harvard University, Overjet builds AI designed to help dental organizations give patients the highest quality of care — the technology enables clinicians to detect pathologies with precision and educate patients with confidence.