Inam: Dental diagnosis functions like an art rather than an objective science
“And then I shared my x-rays with other dentists as well, and I got different opinions. And that what didn't sit Well with me where it felt more of an art rather than a science. There has to be one truth, you know, like, what is it?”
Dental practices measured finances but lacked clinical quality metrics before Overjet
“There were ways of measuring financial performance. There was no way of measuring clinical quality in dental practices, and I felt that if we did not do anything about it, we would head in, in a very wrong direction.”
Inam: Dentists under-diagnose significantly more than they over-diagnose
“There is significant amount more under diagnosis in dentistry. And treatments that are not happening then over diagnosis.”
Overjet AI quantifies disease progression instead of offering binary detection
“What was really unique about us was that we started to quantify disease. So rather than saying, hey, there is a cavity, we started saying, hey, here's a cavity which is 25% of your crown area of the tooth. That means you meet, you need this treatment. That is …”
Inam funded Overjet's first year using her house down payment
“My parents had given me when I graduated and married that given me, you know, a check for putting down payment on Our house. And so we use that. That was our, you know, seed money there. And then I started going to dentist though. And then there was another de…”
Pre-seed angel investor refused to fund Overjet without a male CEO
“An investor, this was an angel investor, they have a fund, a pre-seed fund, who basically told me, hey, I really like you. However the chances of you getting funded next are so low that I don't want to put, you know money in because I think the statistics they…”
Overjet signed Guardian and Delta Dental before raising seed funding
“And then by the time, you know, you mentioned the seed route, we had signed Guardian and Delta Dental. These are large insurance companies.”
Overjet targeted insurers before dentists to bypass FDA clearance delays
“So for dentists, we needed FDA clearance. And that itself is a longer process. So we started the FTA process while we needed actual customers to get the funding, to get to the net, to build what we needed to build.”
Inam: Overjet won every insurance RFP it participated in
“And we basically won every RFP that we participated in.”