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HEALTHCARE ELITES
MobiDent:
Using AI And Mobile Dentistry To
Make Preventive Dental Care The
New Health Care Fashion
Vivek Madappa
CEO
Dr. Devaiah Mapangada
Chief Medical Officer
n India, 30,000 dentists graduate every year for 309
dental colleges. Yet 50% give up dentistry, as
investment on a new clinic is about Rs12 lacs and it
takes about 10 years for a clinic to be profitable. I Vivek Madappa, a serial entrepreneur in exponential
technologies decided to address this problem by combining
two seemingly disparate ideas to offer a solution that could
revolutionise dental care.
In India, South Asia, Africa and South America 90% of the
people do not have access to dental care. Even in the
developed countries dental care is extremely expensive.
And 70% of the population in these countries suffer with a
dental problem they don't know exists. Here is the story of a start-up from Bangalore, India that has
combined Mobile Dentistry with Digital Technology to
launch MobiDent Digital Dentistry.
Mobile Dentistry: Caddy Clinic
Caddy Clinic - Worlds lightest Dental Clinic in a suitcase
was an ambitious project conceptualised by a team at
MobiDent to build a mobile dental clinic that has “Italian
design, German engineering at Indian prices”.
If Mouth is the gateway to good health, then oral hygiene
and dental care becomes the starting point of any health
care conversation.
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