Boneprox

Where the general health industry is getting digitized, the dental industry is lagging behind. Dentists are today highly reliant on specialists in the industry, which is an expensive bottleneck. With machine learning and artificial intelligence, Boneprox developed a digital specialist clinic, making it possible to send digital consultation referrals and questions to connected specialists, with quick responses. Today, it can take up to 15 months to get help from a specialist – Konekta gives an answer the same day.

Boneprox started 2005 with a technology to identify osteoporosis from dental x-rays, and have now developed from that. The company provides services and products based on AI, machine learning, and secure and efficient communication to the dental and health sector. Enabling clinics, dentists, and doctors to become more efficient in sending, receiving, analyzing, and diagnosing images and patients. In addition to this, Boneprox invests heavily in R&D and AI to improve and streamline daily diagnostics as well as connect dental care and healthcare by finding patients at risk for systemic diseases based on dental X-ray images. Boneprox had more than 800 clinics using the platform (2022).

The team

“The mouth is the mirror of the body” is a well-established fact among health professionals and was something Kjell Kärrbrink wanted to make use of with his background as a dentist. Back in 2005, he discovered a method to diagnose osteoporosis through dental x-ray pictures. Ten years later, his grandchild Anton, together with the brothers Theodor and Peder Remman, inherited the finding to commercialize it. Together with their fantastic team, Boneprox is today on a trajectory to revolutionize oral care as it is seen today. The team is located in Gothenburg and Oslo.

Backers’ perspective

At BackingMinds, we are convinced that proactive care will have an essential part in limiting the increased personal suffering from common diseases as well as reducing health care costs. This will not be made with conventional tools, but instead, be driven by digitalization and technology. While traditional health care has faced a huge disruption during the past years, dental tech is still in its infancy – strangely enough.

The team behind Boneprox has found a way to bridge the gap between health and dental care by making dentists an important complement to the early diagnosis of common diseases. With their plug-in solutions, integrated with already existing dental x-ray systems, the company is a scalable company with huge potential. In addition to the initial osteoporosis analyses, Boneprox has built a SaaS-platform where dentists get access to specialists. With an innovation that taps into diagnostics, preventive care, as well as women and elderly health while disrupting the dental industry, it is a company of the future.