Virtual Dental Care

What Virtual Dental Care does

Virtual Dental Care is a private US teledentistry company headquartered in Irvine, California, operating since 2017 through three wholly-owned brands: Teledentix (B2B teledentistry software), Dental.com (direct-to-consumer virtual dental visits), and Teledentistry Network (a vDSO that recruits licensed dentists to provide virtual consultations nationwide). The unified platform combines HIPAA-compliant video conferencing, automatic insurance eligibility checks, consolidated claims submission, custom reporting, and AI-assisted data extraction from practice databases to support treatment planning and virtual triage. The company sells into six segments, with insurance companies, dental offices and group practices, public health initiatives, and patients identified as primary, and dental organizations and virtual dentists as secondary.

Monetization spans subscription-style software licensing to dental practices and payers, consumer-facing services through Dental.com, and managed-service economics through the Teledentistry Network vDSO. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and enterprise sales is the dominant GTM motion, supplemented by self-serve consumer access on Dental.com and a network-recruitment channel for dentists. The company claims to operate the nation's largest teledentistry network but does not disclose patient or provider counts, revenue, or ownership structure beyond an investor relations page. Two funding rounds totaling approximately $4.85 million (2020 and 2022) and a headcount range of 11-50 employees indicate an early- to mid-stage operating profile.

Name

Virtual Dental Care

Legal name

Virtual Dental Care

Website

https://virtualdentalcare.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Virtual Dental Care operates a multi-brand teledentistry platform, offering HIPAA-compliant video consultations, insurance eligibility, and claims tools to dental practices, payers, and patients across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Teledentistry Software

NAICS

Offices of Dentists (62121)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Dental Teleconsultation Marketplaces (HLALALAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Urgent Care & On-Demand Virtual Visits (HLALAAAB)

Keywords

• Teledentistry software
• Virtual dental care
• Dental telehealth platform
• Dental insurance solutions
• Dental practice management

Headquarters

HQ city

Irvine

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Teledentix Software Licensing: Teledentix software licensing for dental offices, group practices, and dental organizations. The platform provides telecommunication and data management tools scaled for practices of any size.
2. Dental.com Consumer Services: Direct-to-consumer teledentistry services through Dental.com, offering patients 24/7 virtual visits with licensed dentists for emergencies, prescriptions, and second opinions.
3. Insurance Company Solutions: Plug-and-play teledentistry and mobile services for benefits providers and payers, including on-demand virtual visits and consolidated claims submission.
4. Teledentistry Network Dentist Services: vDSO services enabling licensed dentists to provide virtual care, with participating dentists earning income from virtual consultations while making their own hours.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Virtual Dental Care develops and operates the Teledentix SaaS platform, providing HIPAA-compliant teledentistry software for video consultations, eligibility checks, claims submission, and AI-powered data extraction to dental practices, insurance payers, and dental organizations. The company also operates Dental.com, a direct-to-consumer portal offering 24/7 virtual visits with licensed dentists for emergencies, prescriptions, and second opinions, alongside Teledentistry Network, a vDSO recruiting licensed dentists to deliver virtual care across the United States.

Product overview

Virtual Dental Care operates as a unified platform combining three core brands: Teledentix (B2B teledentistry software), Dental.com (direct-to-consumer patient services), and Teledentistry Network (vDSO supporting virtual dentists). The integrated suite provides virtual dental care solutions for insurance companies, dental offices, dental organizations, public health initiatives, and patients, featuring secure video conferencing, automatic eligibility checks, and consolidated claims submission.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Teledentix: Teledentistry software platform created by Virtual Dental Care, enabling secure video conferencing and HIPAA-compliant communications for dental professionals.
• Dental.com
• Teledentistry Network

Products and services

• Teledentix A SaaS teledentistry platform offering secure video conferencing, HIPAA-compliant communications, automatic eligibility checks, consolidated claims submission, virtual triage, custom reporting, and AI-powered data extraction for dental practices, insurance payers, and dental organizations.
• Dental.com A direct-to-consumer platform providing 24/7 virtual visits with licensed dentists for dental emergencies, prescriptions, second opinions, and other non-emergency consultations, accessible by individual patients without sales intervention.
• Teledentistry Network A Virtual Dental Support Organization (vDSO) that recruits and empowers licensed dentists to deliver virtual dental consultations nationwide, allowing participating dentists to set their own hours and earn income remotely from patient consultations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 60% of nation's Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas are located in rural areas where teledentistry helps address access disparities

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Dentulu: Dentulu is a direct teledentistry platform offering on-demand virtual dental consultations, a dentist network, and SaaS tooling for practices — the closest direct competitor to Virtual Dental Care's Teledentix + Dental.com combination.
• MouthWatch: MouthWatch provides teledentistry hardware and software (including the TeleDent platform) for dental offices, group practices, and public health programs — directly comparable to Teledentix's provider-integrated virtual care offering.

Emerging players

• tab32: tab32 is a cloud dental practice management / EHR platform with built-in telehealth capabilities, making it a partial-overlap peer for Virtual Dental Care's provider-integrated virtual care SaaS.
• Pearl: Pearl provides AI-powered dental imaging and diagnostic assistance to dental practices and DSOs, comparable to Virtual Dental Care's AI-data-extraction and preventive-care positioning within dental practices.
• Candid: Candid is a DTC clear-aligner brand that relies on teledentistry for remote treatment planning and check-ins, comparable to Virtual Dental Care's dental-organization and DTC consumer offerings.
• Byte (Dentsply Sirona): Byte, now owned by Dentsply Sirona, is a DTC aligner brand built around teledentistry-based remote care, comparable in product/customer overlap with Virtual Dental Care's Dental.com consumer channel.
• Overjet: Overjet is a dental AI platform applying machine learning to clinical imaging and insurance claims — adjacent to Virtual Dental Care's AI data extraction and payer claims-submission capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• Align Technology (Invisalign): Align Technology operates the Invisalign / iTero ecosystem that increasingly integrates teleconsultation and remote monitoring, making it a broad incumbent whose expansion into dental telehealth competes for the same payer and DSO budgets.
• Weave: Weave is a patient communication and practice-management platform widely used in dental offices; it competes for the same dental-software budget as Teledentix and increasingly bundles telehealth-adjacent features.
• SmileDirectClub: Once the largest DTC dental teleconsultation-driven aligner brand, SmileDirectClub pioneered teledentistry-as-front-door-for-consumer-dentistry and illustrates both the upside and execution risk of Virtual Dental Care's Dental.com DTC model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/VirtualDentCare
• Facebookfacebook.com/VirtualDentalCare
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/virtual-dental-care-inc.

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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