Dental Technology

AiroDental Raises $0 to Keep Dental AI Accountable to Dentists

AiroDental today announced that it has raised $0 in outside funding. No venture capital, no private equity, no debt, no board. Founder Deren Flesher, DDS, a practicing dentist in Edmond, Oklahoma, owns 100 percent of the company, and explains why the person deciding what dental software does should be someone who has to use it in a dental practice.

September 8, 2026 · 5 min read

What Your Software Counts as Unscheduled

Four practices pull the same report on the same morning and get four numbers. None of them is comparable to the others, and none of them is wrong. The systems differ on whether they count people or procedures, which date the report hangs on, and whether the number is even current. Here is what each one actually counts.

September 2, 2026 · 7 min read

What Happens to Your Data If You Leave

Most owners sign the business associate agreement and never read it again. Inside it is the only provision in federal regulation about what a vendor owes your practice when the relationship ends, and it says considerably less than you would expect.

August 21, 2026 · 8 min read

Integration Is Not One Thing: What "Works With Your PMS" Actually Means

Ask three vendors whether their product integrates with your practice management system and you will get three yeses that mean three different things. Reading is not writing, a copy is not live data, and one connected system is not all of them. The ADA has been telling federal regulators why dentistry ended up here, and the explanation gives buyers a much better set of questions to ask.

August 5, 2026 · 6 min read

One AI Platform vs. Five Different Logins: What Actually Works for a Dental Practice

Most dental practices already run on a stitched-together stack of separate tools. Here's what actually makes AI helpful instead of one more login to manage.

July 9, 2026 · 5 min read