Eradicating the Dental Divide with AI: new era of preventive care | Florian Hillen | TEDxBoston

NOTE FROM TED: This talk only represents the speaker's personal business approach to and understanding of dental health and disease. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/t... Many diseases start with tooth or gum issues that go undetected or neglected. Yet dental care has been a distant stepchild of healthcare, and dentists are seen as focused specialists. The tools dentists have had for diagnosis, mainly X-rays, are challenging for even the best practitioners to use effectively and consistently. AI will change this. Using Videa Health's AI, dentists have been able to spot over 30% more dental conditions to address, and patients are more confident with the treatment recommendations. With the power of dental AI platforms, dentists will step forward as a critical component of overall healthcare, and more people will get the care they need earlier, lowering overall health costs and improving health outcomes. The promise of AI revolutionizing healthcare may be suffering from long-standing hype, but AI is already unlocking the full health potential of dentistry. Florian Hillen is Founder & CEO of VideaHealth, a venture-backed company developing Artificial Intelligence to detect diseases in dental imaging, helping dentists to avoid missing diseases and offering better health services to their patients. Previously, he conducted research projects at the intersection of engineering and social science at MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems and Society and Harvard Business School, worked for McKinsey & Company and founded ninu, a digital healthtech start-up. He holds two masters degrees from MIT in Computer Science and Technology & Policy, a bachelors in Management & Technology and the first State exam in Medicine. Academically always in the intersection of technology and healthca,re. Studied medicine, business in Germany and Computer Science and Policy at MIT. Dropped out of my Harvard PhD to found VideaHealth. Professionally. Previously founded ninu, a digital pregnancy app, was one of the first team members of Eko health, an AI-powered stethoscope for heart diseases and worked at McKinsey. Spun out VideaHealth as the leading dental AI company automatically diagnosing and treatment planning dental disease. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx