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Company | Curve Dental | ||
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| http://www.curvedental.com | ||||
| Founded: | 2005 | |||
| City: | Orem, Utah | |||
| Country: | United States | |||
| CEO: | Jim Pack | |||
| Founders: | Matt Dorey | |||
| Category: | Web Apps/Tools/Widgets | Funding: | Angel | |
| Tags: | dental, dentist, SaaS, software-as-a-service, cloud, web-based, data management, information management, IT, software | Employees: | 16-30 | |
What does Curve Dental do?
Curve Dental is the leading web-based software company serving practice management and medical records software and services to the Dental industry. Curve Dental addresses most all the needs of modern dental offices including patient communication, billing, claims processing, scheduling, reporting, clinical & periodontal charting, medical records and notes, digital radiography and imaging, patient education, and related services. All an office needs is a username/password and they have access to the industry’s leading browser-based dental technology.
How are they different?
The dental industry is currently dominated by old, client/server based technologies that are sold and supported by traditional “feet on the street” sales models and use expensive and intrusive implementation and training processes. Curve Dental is taking a much more direct and Web-based approach to building market share and delivering our services. These methods were tested
and proven at AdvancedMD Software and are being adapted to the dental specialty. This differentiation and proven foundation will permit faster scale, greater margins and happier customers than the legacy products can provide.
and proven at AdvancedMD Software and are being adapted to the dental specialty. This differentiation and proven foundation will permit faster scale, greater margins and happier customers than the legacy products can provide.
Why could Curve Dental be BIG?
More than 217,000 dentists in North America work out of 167,000 dental offices. Of the 217,000 dentists, 193,000 (or 89%) are in general practice and the rest are in a variety of specialties (like orthodontics, dental surgeons, prosthodontists, etc.). Other than medical doctors in general practice, dentists (Dental Medical Doctor DMD or Doctor of Dental Surgery DDS) represent the largest specialty in all of healthcare. The next closest segments are Internal Medicine (106,000 physicians), Pediatrics (53,000 physicians) and OB/GYN ( 37,000 physicians). The total dental industry exceeds $100 billion. Of that, the market potential for Curve Dental products and services is $4 billion annually.
How they plan to make money:
Curve Dental offers its products and services in a recurring revenue, Software as a Service “SaaS”, business model, providing monthly subscription pricing for what has traditionally been a server based, locally installed, “boxed software” marketplace. Curve started its beta implementation in October 2009 and is now actively selling and installing subscriptions into dental offices throughout the United States and Canada. Solid customer acceptance and positive feedback are confirming Curve’s product, delivery method and business model. Curve forecasts breakeven in early 2012 with solid growth to over $30 million sales run rate at the end of 2013, which represents just under 3% of the dentists and about 1% of the potential industry revenue, leaving substantial market opportunity for continued future growth.
Our thoughts:
No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.curvedental.com
Sounds much easier to use and maintain. One to watch….
That is quite interesting. It gave me a few ideas and I’ll be writing them on my website shortly. I’m bookmarking your blog and I’ll be back again. Thank you again!
I vote for Curve dental, They have got to be good and Andy Jensen too.
This should be a real benefit for the dental industry. What could be better?