Pearl Celebrates a Banner Year of Groundbreaking Achievements in Dental AI

Global Expansion, Key Patents, and Industry Partnerships Propel Pearl into a Transformative 2024

Pearl, the global leader in dental AI solutions, is carrying significant momentum into the new year following massive expansion and key successes in 2023, including key patent additions, new global market expansions, major industry partnerships, numerous technology awards, leadership additions and revenue growth exceeding 500%.

We will accelerate that progress and drive even greater innovation in 2024, thanks not only to our relentless innovation of best-in-class dental AI solutions for the global dental market, but also to committed partnerships with technology and institutional leaders who share our AI-powered vision for the future of dentistry.

“Last year, Pearl made tremendous progress toward our goal of transforming dentistry and the dental health of patients around the world with AI,” said Ophir Tanz, founder and CEO of Pearl. “We will accelerate that progress and drive even greater innovation in 2024, thanks not only to our relentless innovation of best-in-class dental AI solutions for the global dental market, but also to committed partnerships with technology and institutional leaders who share our AI-powered vision for the future of dentistry.”

Pearl’s most notable 2023 milestones include:

  • New Patents: Pearl cemented the innovation at the core of its technology with a new industry patent for its chairside AI disease detection software, the second patent for its breakthrough Second Opinion® technology. The patent grants Pearl the exclusive rights to the technology system supporting the software’s application programming interface (API). Pearl was also issued a patent granting exclusive rights to the computer vision and analytics system at the core of its pioneering clinical performance software, Practice Intelligence®, bringing the company’s total number of U.S. patents to 12. 
  • Global Expansion: Pearl further solidified its position at the forefront of the dental AI revolution with numerous additional global regulatory authorizations in 2023, including clearances in  Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Argentina and Switzerland. Second Opinion® also became the first-and-only AI-based dental pathology detection software to gain Class IIa medical device certification under the updated European Union Medical Device Regulation (EU-MDR), one of the world’s most robust health tech regulations. At the 2023 International Dental Show in Cologne, Germany, Pearl announced plans to expand access to its Practice Intelligence® solution for the European market.
  • Awards and Recognition: Pearl took home three prestigious industry awards recognizing the company’s commitment to technological excellence in both the U.S. and UK dental markets, including a 2023 Cellerant Best of Class Technology Award for the second consecutive year, two  UK Dental Industry Awards for “High Technology Launch of the Year” and “New Product/Service of the Year,” and a Nifty Award for “Favorite Dental AI Company.”

To continue driving the company’s mission, Pearl also announced the expansion of its leadership team in November 2023 with the appointment of Ben Plomion as Chief Operating Officer and Mike Barniv, DDS as Vice President of Clinical Affairs.

About Pearl

Pearl is leading the global dental AI revolution with groundbreaking computer vision solutions that elevate efficiency, accuracy, and the standard of care in dentistry. Founded in 2019 by Ophir Tanz, Pearl is backed by Craft Ventures and other leading venture capital firms.

About VisiQuick

Practices using VisiQuick’s dental imaging software now have direct native access to Pearl’s leading clinical AI featureset

Free webinar “AI in your practice” (Dutch spoken)

Artificial Intelligence is a reality in Dutch and Belgian dental practices. Meanwhile, dozens of practices in these countries are working with Pearl’s Second Opinion within VisiQuick as a fully integrated extension in the assessment and patient communication of x-rays.

Through this integration, VisiQuick users now have access to AI assessments of 2D intra-oral x-ray images from Second Opinion, directly in the VisiQuick platform.

Wondering how the application will work in your practice? Then register for free for the webinar “AI in your practice” given by Erik Jan Muts on Thursday 23 November from 20.00 – 20.30. Optionally, you can also request a 15-minute online demonstration via this link.

VisiQuick by Citodent Imaging B.V.

 

VisiQuick integrates Pearl’s Second Opinion® AI

Practices using VisiQuick’s dental imaging software now have direct native access to Pearl’s leading clinical AI featureset

Los Angeles/Amsterdam – Pearl, the global leader in dental AI solutions, and VisiQuick, one of Europe’s top dental imaging software platforms, today announced that Pearl’s Second Opinion® disease detection capabilities are now available to VisiQuick users as a fully-integrated featureset. This partnership expands international access to Pearl’s suite of AI solutions, delivering a higher standard of dentistry to patients throughout the EU.

“The future of dentistry will be defined by the rate of adoption of AI-backed care, which is why, at Pearl, we’re deeply committed to ensuring that patients, providers, and practices have ready access to our AI solutions and their many clinical benefits,” said Ophir Tanz, founder and CEO of Pearl. “By integrating Second Opinion’s capabilities within Visiquick’s imaging solution, instantly equipping thousands of practices around the world with dentistry’s most powerful clinical AI, our partnership with Visiquick ensures a brighter dental future.”

Second Opinion, the industry’s first and only chairside AI software with global regulatory clearances, applies computer vision technology to help dentists identify numerous diseases and other conditions found in dental x-rays. Pearl’s AI delivers its findings in real-time for patient-facing display in the dental operatory, helping dentists ensure the accuracy of their x-ray evaluations and enabling them to better communicate diagnoses to patients. Through this integration, VisiQuick users can now access AI evaluations of 2D intraoral X-ray images from Second Opinion directly within the VisiQuick platform.

“VisiQuick is designed to assist dentists in acquiring, viewing, enhancing, comparing, and annotating all x-rays and intraoral images in order to optimize dental workflows and streamline patient management,” said Piet Reijers, Director of VisiQuick/Citodent Imaging. “With Pearl as a partner, we have dramatically enhanced those capabilities and benefits.”

VisiQuick 30 years: new release 4.6.3!

We will be present at the Dentex in Brussels from Thursday 28 September to Saturday 1 October and at the Dental Expo in Amsterdam from Thursday 27 to Saturday 29 October.

The latest release of VisiQuick is now available. You can find here the latest version and associated changelog of VisiQuick (4.6.3.4159).

LOG4J vulnerability not applicable to VisiQuick and Facad

There are currently warnings worldwide about security risks in LOG4J software in relation to Apache servers.

Our products VisiQuick and Facad do not suffer from the newly discovered vulnerabilities. The LOG4J tool and Apache servers are not used.

Release 2021.1 is ready

Announcing Release 2021.1 VisiQuick V4.4

We have released a new version! The release is ready for download on our FTP-site.
The web site is updated with new download links, and we posted an announcement.
Note that you will need to have an up-to-date license to install this update.

Important changes

The License Update Server can now be used

VisiQuick will now automatically update your license before it has expired.

Manual in several languages

We have made manuals in these languages: Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Netherlands and Norwegian.

Problems fixed

These are some of the problems we fixed. For the full list, see Change History.

  • Extended Linking indicated wrong teeth and PAN/CEPH in the status. For users with a practice management system (PMS), which is using extended linking to display image status in the PMS, the image status is now correct.
  • X-rays with multiple teeth numbers caused status views to ignore the X-ray.
  • The button for adjusting contrast was reset when another image was opened.
  • Sending mails to a mail server requiring SSL/TLS 1.3 did not work.

Thomas Monitor Systems becomes Citodent Imaging B.V.

On November 25, 2019, the legal form of Thomas Monitor Systems was converted into a private company. From that moment the official name has been changed to Citodent Imaging B.V.

Our address and bank account number remain unchanged.

The name and the branding of VisiQuick will remain as it always was!

Our new company data:

Chamber of Commerce: 76510220
VAT: NL860651290B01

VisiQuick 4 available for MSSQL database

VisiQuick 4 build 819 is available. This version can work with the classic Paradox database but also with a MSSQL full version database.

Later this year another variant of VisiQuick will be launched: VisiQuick Extended. This includes the following functions:

  • User Roles (linked to Active Directory or Administration system): allows the functions and possibilities within VisiQuick to be assigned to specific user groups.
  • Central configuration and management of X-ray equipment: for practices with multiple locations.
  • Worklist X-ray (Dicom, modality worklist): queue per location or clinic to make X-ray images.

DentalEyepad works with VisiQuick

The DentalEyepad camera has recently appeared on the market. This digital camera has its own built-in workflow and the photos can be automatically added to the patient card in VisiQuick.

The installation is easyly done by yourself or with the help of your IT professional.

DenatlEyepad is available at various dental depots.

New VisiQuick dealers in Belgium and Denmark

We are pleased to announce that our dealer network is expanding further.

In Denmark there are two new VisiQuick dealers: Nordenta AS, and Dent Support.

In Belgium DK Medical has become a dealer of VisiQuick working closely with Kerckaert & Laboror.

All VisiQuick dealers are able to carry out the entire process of training, installation and support of VisiQuick. This applies not only to new but also to existing users of VisiQuick.