EZ Dental Cloud Enhances Precision Dentistry and Custom Prosthetics Through Imaging Big Data and Intelligent Analytics

Oral health diagnosis and treatment services represent a highly commercialized medical sector. In recent years, the oral care industry has garnered increasing attention from both policymakers and investors.

Data shows that the overall dental market is projected to exceed RMB 200 billion, with the denture processing segment accounting for nearly RMB 20 billion and featuring a high average transaction value. Across China, there are more than 90,000 registered dental hospitals and clinics, 260,000 licensed dentists, over 2,000 denture processing enterprises, and various pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, making it a typical “small sector, large industry.”

Oral healthcare is a highly customized, precision medicine sector. For a long time, oral diagnosis and treatment technologies, as well as the processing of high-value consumables, have been constrained by foreign technical barriers, with heavy reliance on imports and consequently high costs.

Domestic denture processing enterprises have been striving to break through, but due to the low level of digitalization in processing, domestic dental hospitals generally collect patients' intraoral data through non-electronic methods, which has resulted in non-standardized treatment analysis and processing, a high rework rate, and low diagnosis and treatment efficiency.

“EZ Dental Cloud,” developed and launched by Xi’an North Information Technology Co., Ltd., is an integrated platform for digital aesthetic dental imaging, design, and fabrication. Built on a combination of smart hardware and a SaaS system, it applies imaging data and intelligent analytics to patient intake management, clinical case design and analysis, denture order processing, and the 3D printing supply chain. VCBeat (WeChat: vcbeat) will introduce this digital health enterprise.

Addressing Industry Pain Points, the EZ Dental Cloud Product Suite Comprises the Following Four Major Segments:

1. Intelligent software and hardware for doctor-patient consultation and negotiation.Starting with the consultation, negotiation, and case-signing processes closely tied to outpatient operations, we provide standardized digital hardware and software tools for patient intake marketing to enhance the ability to close treatment plans and improve order conversion rates. This enables statistical analysis, operational management, KPI assessment, and intelligent marketing based on consultation data.

2. Cloud-based Medical Record and Imaging System.Based on the patient treatment plans obtained through the consultation system, provide outpatient services such as appointment scheduling, medical record management, and surgical risk assessment, striving to create precise patient profiles and enhance the accuracy of diagnosis and treatment;

3. Aesthetic Imaging Analysis and Design System.By leveraging comprehensive patient imaging records, we begin with the processing of imaging data closely related to clinical diagnosis and treatment, providing visualization tools based on dental aesthetics. These tools are integrated into the dentist’s diagnostic and surgical workflow, while collaborating with dental laboratories to solidify usage habits through a series of training programs for clinical-technical coordination.

4. Yasuda Order Processing and Operations Platform.By collaborating with denture processing labs, clinical case data collected and analyzed by dentists is converted into digital work orders, enabling efficient coordination between clinicians and technicians. The system also provides payment settlement and production management services for the labs, reducing their operational complexity and costs. The vast volume of case data and orders generated through this process further supports the production of dental 3D printing products.

EZ Dental Cloud Product Suite

Let case data speak: EZ Dental Cloud is committed to enabling ordinary patients to intuitively perceive the effects of dental treatment.

According to Yang Mei, head of Xi'an North Information Technology Co., Ltd., the system is currently being used by more than 7,000 dental hospitals and clinics. Over 30 digital denture processing centers established across China guarantee order fulfillment for the platform, providing patients with a range of products including aesthetic restorations, orthodontic treatments, and dental implants.

Meanwhile, precise medical data analysis has also reduced surgical risks, significantly improved the diagnosis and treatment rates of oral diseases, ultimately enhanced the efficiency and accuracy of denture processing, and lowered the prices of dental consumables.

By securing industry data resources and delivering specialized diagnostic and treatment services, Xi'an North Information Technology Co., Ltd. has earned recognition within the industry for its impressive performance. In recent years, the team has successively received the Gold Award at the Shaanxi Science and Technology Workers Innovation Competition, the Silver Award in the Shaanxi Division of the National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition, the Top Ten Entrepreneurship Projects Award in Western China, and inclusion in Shaanxi’s Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Special Program.

Li Wei, the company’s founder, is a dentist who graduated from the Fourth Military Medical University and has dedicated many years to exploring the industry-academia-research applications of digital healthcare. In 2015, he co-founded Zhibei Information, a dental digital healthcare technology enterprise, with Dr. Yang Mei, a university faculty member in Xi’an.

As a member enterprise of the Big Data Application Engineering Center at the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the team has rapidly assembled a distinguished group of experts from the dental industry, Ph.D. research teams from universities, senior executives in digital dental operations, and top talent from dental prosthetics manufacturing enterprises, leveraging its technological and resource advantages.

At its inception, North Information relied on the Shaanxi Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Special Program to jointly develop imaging-basedDSD (Digital Smile Design) Aesthetic Design SystemBy integrating information technology with dental aesthetic techniques, the system effectively meets clinicians’ needs for visualized and quantitative analysis of oral conditions, while accumulating a large volume of structured and unstructured case data. Combined with clinical dental practices and promoted through training programs, the system has rapidly gained favor among nearly 7,000 clinics and dentists.

Doctors are learning to design methods for processing imaging data.

Based on the physician-designed case imaging analysis, and considering the core business needs of daily outpatient consultations and operational management, the system alsoExtension to the Patient Side, facilitating outpatient consultants and physicians in conducting standardized and efficient consultations for case acceptance. It is understood that the EZ team also operates its own 300-square-meter dental clinic, aiming to enable its physicians to routinely validate the system’s application model and provide timely support to peer users.

“During our operations, we have found that in addition to a suite of digital tools for daily outpatient services, the most critical factor isData Generated from Patient Consultations, how to better serve operatorsProvide a Basis for Decision-Making Analysis“, providing reliable recommendations for follow-up visits to assist physicians in clinical decision-making requires the analysis of operational and patient medical record data, which is precisely where our R&D team excels,” introduced Yang Mei.

 Doctors use the digital consultation system to explain to patients

With the precision of routine outpatient diagnostic and treatment items, coupled with the standardization of patient medical record and imaging data processing, these data have greatly assisted pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers—especially dental prosthetics processing enterprises—in producing more precise dental prosthetic products and reducing rework rates.

Unlike other industries, data obtained in dental healthcare can be directly applied to the precise manufacturing of dental prosthetics and the provision of personalized clinical treatment plans. Meanwhile, hospital medical data is gradually moving to public cloud platforms, signifying that medical data is increasingly becoming open and interconnected.

The EZ team received funding from in 2017Angel Round Investment by CAS StarVC Fund, accelerating the R&D and time-to-market of products. As the EZ Dental Cloud System continues to enhance its functionality, the number of highly engaged users is steadily increasing. The team is currently optimizing the patient reception and order acceptance workflow in clinics by leveraging big data centered on “patients + the dental industry chain.” By capitalizing on a large volume of precisely matched denture processing orders, they are collaborating to establish a 3D printing center for precision dental components, thereby improving industry chain efficiency and optimizing supply chain and financial services.

In 2018, with policy support from the local governments of Shaanxi and Zhejiang provinces, Xi'an North Information Technology Co., Ltd. planned to establish 3D printing processing centers for precision dental components in cities such as Xi’an and Shaoxing, leveraging data-driven approaches to develop medical products. The project has now entered the implementation phase.

Li Wei stated that Xi'an North Information Technology Co., Ltd. will leverage local government initiatives for talent introduction and support to establish 3D printing processing centers in partnership with manufacturing facilities across all major regions of China, thereby significantly enhancing productivity and reducing the cost of dental consumables.

Currently, Xi'an North Information Technology Co., Ltd. is seeking a RMB 10 million Pre-A financing round, offering 10% equity. The proceeds from this round will be primarily used for R&D investment and market expansion.