Convergent Dental Celebrates Explosive Growth, Widespread Adoption of its Innovative Solea CO2 Hard and Soft Tissue Dental La...
30 January 2015 - 1:00AM
Business Wire
Yankee Dental Congress – Convergent Dental Inc., a
privately held dental device company, is proud to announce the
significant milestones the company reached in 2014, the first year
its flagship dental laser Solea was available to the market. Solea
has quickly established itself as a critical tool in the dental
operatory because it enables any dentist to virtually eliminate
anesthesia and blood from operative dentistry. Solea’s success is
largely attributed to its unique 9.3 micron wavelength and computer
controls, both of which are firsts in laser dentistry.
Empowering dentists to perform virtually anesthesia-free and
blood-free procedures is transforming practices with dramatic
efficiency gains and entirely new patient experiences. With drills,
dentists lose valuable time injecting patients and waiting for
numbness, then they are limited to working in one quadrant of the
mouth due to the risk of patient injury. Solea dentists report
performing 95 percent of both hard and soft tissue procedures
without anesthesia or bleeding, enabling them to start immediately,
routinely execute multi-quadrant dentistry, fill cavities when they
are discovered in hygiene and perform soft tissue procedures they
would never have done without a laser. These time savings result in
dentists performing six or more procedures per day and revenue
gains of 25-40 percent.
Solea sales nearly quadrupled in Q4 2014 as the facts emerged
regarding the increased productivity, significantly improved
patient experience and practice growth experienced by Solea’s early
users. Convergent Dental’s momentum has far exceeded market
expectations as the business has risen to be the fastest growing
hard and soft tissue laser company in the US in only its first year
on the market.
Additional 2014 highlights from Convergent Dental include:
$9 Million in Oversubscribed Funding Round
Convergent Dental secured $9 million in an oversubscribed
funding round led by Long River Ventures along with individual
investors. The funding fueled the company’s investments in product
development, sales, marketing and client services to meet the
growing demand for Solea.
Major Upgrades to Solea
Convergent Dental’s commitment to innovation has already yielded
major upgrades to its flagship Solea dental laser. Solea Version 2
offers a completely redesigned handpiece, the ability to use office
air for near soundless cutting, software upgrades that enable a
fourfold increase in cutting speed, an adjustable aiming beam and
more, all of which will be made available to new and existing
customers. These features came in addition to the standard
computer-optimized beam delivery system, variable speed foot pedal
and intuitive touch screen that enables any dentist to become an
expert after only one day of training.
One of the Most Decorated Dental Products of 2014
In addition to the dental community, the media fell in love with
Solea almost immediately and showered the dental laser with
accolades. Convergent Dental took home the following accolades and
honors in 2014:
- Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New”
Award which recognized Solea as one of the top 100 tech innovations
of the 2014.
- Solea was named DentalCompare’s “Top
New Dental Product of 2014” and was also listed amongst the
publication’s “Top 10 Dental Products of 2014.”
- Dentistry Today included Solea on their
“Readers’ Choice Top 50 Technology Products” as well as the
“Dentistry Today 28th Annual Top 100 Products” awards.
- The Medical Design Excellence Gold
Award for Solea’s innovative application of technology, impact on
oral health and creative design.
- Solea took home the DrBicuspid.com 2014
Dental Excellence Award for “Best New Instrument/Device.”
“I am ecstatic about our performance in 2014. Solea far
outperformed both ours and our customers’ expectations,” said
Convergent Dental CEO Michael Cataldo. “We knew Solea would enable
a better patient experience but even we were surprised at the
dramatic effect that Solea has on productivity and
profits. With the first year behind us, we can see that we
have just scratched the surface of Solea’s potential and look
forward more positive surprises in 2015.”
About Convergent Dental, Inc.
Convergent Dental, Inc., is a privately managed dental equipment
and technology company and is the developer of Solea™, the world’s
first computer-aided, CO2 laser system to ever be cleared by the
FDA for both hard and soft tissue indications. Solea cuts
significantly quieter, finer and faster than any other laser-based
system in dentistry. Solea’s speed and precision is a result of
patented technologies and computer system controls that are unique
to Convergent Dental, Inc. For more information visit
www.convergentdental.com. Follow the company on Twitter, Facebook,
LinkedIn and Google+.
Breakaway Innovation GroupTim Morin,
617-399-0635tmorin@breakaway.com