Dandy was created with one goal in mind: to modernize the dental lab process.
We’re the first solution of its kind. Our platform is designed to level up practices by making the entire process effortlessly digital — from start to finish.
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Yesterday we took out a full-page ad in The New York Times for dentures.
Not exactly the category you expect to see taking over a page in the Business section, but roughly 1 in 8 Americans rely on them and almost nobody talks about them outside dentistry.
I’ve always thought that was odd. A denture is one of the most personal things a person wears. It affects how they eat, speak, smile, and whether they feel like themselves sitting across the table from their family.
So why have dentures been made largely the same way for decades? We’ve spent a lot of time at Dandy changing that.
That work became Dandy Fusion™ Dentures. It combines a digitally engineered base with hand-poured acrylic, so dentists don’t have to make the same trade-offs between precision, appearance, and repairability.
It took years to get there.
Figured it was worth putting the conversation in front of a few more people.
Every morning, 1 in 8 Americans put their teeth in.
Today, our founders, Daniel Hanover and Toni Oloko, wrote to them. A full-page ad in The New York Times on why we built Dandy Fusion™ Dentures.
If you wear dentures, love someone who does, or fit them for a living, this letter is for you.
meetdandy.com/nyt
Better care happens when diagnosis and delivery work together.
That’s why we’re partnering with Videa to bring AI-powered clinical insights and Dandy’s digital lab capabilities into a more connected workflow, helping practices carry treatment from recommendation through completion.
Less friction for practices. More clarity for patients.
Learn more below.
Identifying treatment is one thing. Moving it forward is another.
That’s why #Videa is partnering with Dandy to create a more connected path from diagnosis to completed care.
By bringing together Videa’s AI-powered clinical insights with Dandy’s advanced digital lab workflows and expertise, we’re helping practices:
→ Make treatment easier for patients to see and understand
→ Reduce friction between diagnosis and delivery
→ Create more predictable treatment workflows
→ Turn more identified care into accepted, completed cases
It’s about connecting the pieces that already matter - clinical confidence, patient understanding, and efficient execution - to make the entire treatment journey work better.
Read the full announcement and see what Videa + Dandy are building together → https://lnkd.in/gjSTtAeq#DentalAI#DigitalDentistry#DentalTechnology#DentalLabs#Dentistry#Videa#Dandy
We're coming to Florida next month with a game-changer for dentists. It lets patients go home with a perfect denture in just 2 visits.
Join us for Dandy Live: Tampa on Sunday, October 18 for a hands-on CE training event all about mastering the 2-appointment digital denture.
This workflow is actively helping practices reclaim chair time without ever compromising on fit or esthetics.
You'll walk away with 3 CE credits and a clear, repeatable process you can bring straight back to the operatory the very next day.
Seats are limited, secure your spot today! Link in the comments.
Today we're introducing Dandy Fusion™ Dentures: the first denture to fuse hand-poured acrylic with digital precision.
For over a decade, delivering a full denture meant navigating trade-offs in appearance, fit, and turnaround time.
That choice ends today.
Fusion brings hand-finished acrylic and digital precision into one workflow, so your practice can deliver:
→ Full dentures in as little as 5 days, with only 2 appointments.
→ Hand-poured acrylic for lifelike gingiva with subtle, natural variation.
→ A digitally designed fit for fewer chairside adjustments.
→ Dentures that support relines and repairs for long-term care.
Every Fusion denture is made in our U.S. labs, so your patients keep their current dentures right up until the new ones are ready.
When the fit is right and the finish looks natural, your patient leaves with more than a new denture. They leave with the confidence to smile without a second thought.
Discover Dandy Fusion™ Dentures today. Link in comments.
A multi-million-dollar DSO told us they intentionally lose money on patients.
On The Margin Line, Mary Ladd and Dalton Albertin from Ladd Dental Group, Inc. joined Joe Lynch to explain how a small-town Indiana practice grew into a multi-location DSO without abandoning its founding principle: patients first, the money will follow.
Mary Ladd's father started Ladd Dental Group in Kokomo in 1978. He bartered carpentry and electrical work when patients couldn't afford care. Today, Medicaid and managed care still make up about 40% of their patient base, and they accept every insurance.
That same philosophy runs every decision — including technology.
Dalton Albertin, LADD's Director of Business Development, told us the team runs every tech investment through two questions:
1. Does it improve the patient experience or outcome?
2. Does it help the bottom line?
If the answer isn't yes to both, the conversation ends. If it is, they pilot at one or two locations before scaling.
That's how Dandy got rolled out across their practices. They piloted at two locations first. Doctors liked it, the products fit, and support showed up. Then it went everywhere.
Most DSOs either over-invest in technology before they know if it works, or under-invest because the evaluation never ends. LADD found the middle: proof of concept before scale.
47 years of putting patients first. Turns out it's a pretty good business strategy.
The full conversation with Joe Lynch covers LADD's acquisition philosophy, their dental school partnerships that supply 70-80% of their assistants, and how Mary thinks about growth.
Listen to The Margin Line, available now. Episode link below 👇
The best dental technology only matters if it helps dentists deliver better care.
That's why we're excited to welcome Jack Marrano to Dandy as our new Director of Clinical Innovation.
Jack brings 25 years of clinical experience and a deep understanding of what Dentist and dental practices need from their lab partner. He'll help us build an even better experience for dentists, from the first scan to the final restoration.
Welcome to Dandy, Jack.
A denture used to take 3 months to get to a patient at Dr. Sundar Jagadeesan’s practice in New Zealand.
That's 3 months of struggling to eat, smile, and live comfortably.
So when Dr. Jagadeesan heard us talk about delivering dentures in 2 appointments in the U.S., he never forgot it.
The moment we brought Dandy to New Zealand, he signed Dentiq up because it finally meant they could deliver the highest standard of removables care in their area.
Last week, they delivered their first Dandy denture to one of their patients.
What used to take months can now happen in a fraction of the time.
For a patient waiting to eat comfortably, speak normally, or smile without thinking about it, that time matters.
Dr. Sundar Jagadeesan sent us this video after the delivery.
What happens when you make vibe coding accessible to everyone at Dandy?
In just two months, our team built more than 600 internal apps. For more than half the people who built them, it was their first time building an app at Dandy.
That’s the idea behind Creation Station: give anyone on our team the tools to turn an idea into a working app, without needing to be a traditional developer.
Michael Ireland breaks down how we built Creation Station and how teams across Dandy are using it to build tools that solve real problems.
Read more in the comments.
We sat down with a dentist who fits dentures and seats crowns for 40,000 patients in recliners, wheelchairs, and sometimes even their own beds. Here's how he does it:
On The Margin Line, Dr. Nathan Suter joined Joe Lynch to explain how Enable Dental built a company around the patients most of dentistry isn't set up to serve: seniors in memory care, homebound adults, and people with disabilities and complex medical needs.
Enable doesn't operate vans or mobile clinics. Their teams carry equipment originally built for the military to use in the field, walk it into a memory care facility or a patient's living room, and stand up a full dental operation for the day. Then they pack down and drive to the next stop, up to three times a day.
Today they run 27 hubs across 12 states, including 6,000 denture cases a year.
Dentures are where the math gets interesting.
Most of Enable's patients can't make multiple trips to a clinic. Every extra visit means more logistics, more transportation, more chances a case never gets finished. So Nathan ran a six-month pilot with Dandy across 15 clinicians to see if a digital workflow could change the equation.
The results:
- Turnaround time dropped by 50%
- 1.5 fewer visits per case, on average
- Net Promoter Scores went up 10 points
Then Enable rolled it out to 65 more providers.
Patients noticed the technology — even seniors who'd worn dentures for decades remembered the gag of an alginate impression and were impressed by a 3D scan. The experience itself became part of the care.
The full conversation with Joe Lynch covers how Enable built the logistics behind portable dentistry, why dental innovation has overlooked this population for so long, and what value-based dental care could look like for seniors over the next decade.
Listen to The Margin Line, available now. Episode link below 👇
