Here are eight milestones from dental technology companies in 2026:
1. Faraday Future delivered its Master humanoid robot to Wonderful Life Dental Group in Los Angeles, marking the company’s first deployment of an embodied AI robot in a healthcare setting.
2. The University of the Pacific will become the first dental school in the U.S. to implement PDS Health’s dental-optimized instance of Epic across medical, dental and ambulatory surgery center settings.
3. The Community College of Baltimore County in Maryland opened the first virtual reality lab for dental hygiene students in the U.S.
4. Dentsply Sirona and Siemens Healthineers received FDA clearance for the first-of-its-kind dental-dedicated MRI in the U.S.
5. Neocis recently surpassed 100,000 osteotomies completed with its Yomi robot.
6. Dental AI company Pearl released its Oral Health Index, the first radiographic census of American oral health, based on an analysis of more than 26 million dental X-rays across 15 million patients.
7. Dental artificial intelligence company VideaHealth established a council of dental executives to help shape the future of AI use in dentistry.
8. Dental software company Planet DDS launched the first voice-powered periodontal charting system within its Denticon platform.
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