The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Dentomi: AI-Driven Dental Care Revolutionizes Oral Health at CES 2026

Episode Date: January 1, 2026

Dentomi: AI-Driven Dental Care Revolutionizes Oral Health at CES 2026 Dentomi.biz About the Guest(s): Chun Wang Chau is a PhD fellow specializing in AI and mHealth applications within the field of dentistry. He focuses on translational research for developing AI-driven solutions aimed at monitoring and treating oral diseases. His work is dedicated to advancing community dentistry through innovative technology and strategic partnerships, with a strong emphasis on improving accessibility and effectiveness of oral healthcare for underserved populations. Shun is currently involved with Denoni, a startup that is innovating in the realm of dental healthcare. Episode Summary: In this captivating episode of The Chris Voss Show, we delve into a thought-provoking discussion with Chun Wang Chau from Dentomi, whose pioneering work in AI and dental health is breaking new ground. As the CES 2026 event approaches, this episode highlights the exciting innovations in technology that will be featured at the show. Chun Wang Chau shares insights into his company’s groundbreaking AI-driven solutions, designed to transform oral healthcare by making it more accessible and effective for everyone, especially underserved populations. The episode explores the challenges within the dentistry field that Denoni aims to address. With the high cost and limited availability of dental care being a global issue, Chun Wang Chau’s startup provides solutions like AI-powered gingivitis screening tools accessible via web platforms. Highlighting his journey from academia to entrepreneurship, Chun Wang Chau’s narrative bridges technology and health to reduce the barriers to dental care. This episode is packed with SEO keywords such as AI-driven dentistry solutions, oral healthcare technology, and accessibility in dental treatment, offering listeners a comprehensive understanding of the services provided by Denoni. Key Takeaways: The Dentomi team’s mission is to enhance accessibility to oral healthcare using AI technology, aiming to fill crucial gaps in current dental treatment availability. The startup’s AI-driven solutions are designed to preemptively address dental issues, such as gingivitis, before they become severe, leveraging easily accessible platforms like smartphones or tablets. Eureka Park at CES acts as the springboard for futuristic startups like Denoni to showcase their novel concepts and technologies. Chun Wang Chau’s motivation stemmed from observing difficulties in accessing dental care post-COVID, prompting the development of technology-driven dental solutions. Utilizing AI in dentistry not only enhances patient education but also empowers individuals to manage their oral health effectively. Notable Quotes: “We’re aiming to bridge the gap by bringing affordable oral healthcare to everyone at home through technology.” “Seeing a dentist may not be affordable for everyone daily; our AI solutions work upstream to address dental issues early on.” “Our gingivitis screening solution highlights unwashed areas of your mouth in red, utilizing your own devices like a smartphone or iPad for easy access.” “We want to contribute to universal oral healthcare by applying our solutions to a global context, aiding various underserved communities.” “By bringing AI into the mix, we’re not just diagnosing but also providing personalized advice to help individuals manage their oral health better.”

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Because you're about to go on a moment. Monster Education Roller Coaster with your brain. Now, here's your host, Chris Voss. Hi, folks, and Voss here from the Chris Voss Show.com. Ladies, Young, and the Arlington sings to them makes it official 16 years going on 17, 2,600 episodes going on 2,700. I think we're almost at. We're just bringing you the most amazing minds and stories of the journeys of life. So make sure you refer to the show to your family, friends, and relatives.

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some of the new startups, what their vision is and what they're going to. And as always, make sure you catch, we just had our good friend, Gary Shapiro, the CEO of CES and CTA on the show. He did his eighth annual appearance with us. So be sure to check that out as well, where we talk about the technology and some of the amazing things that are coming to CES. And let's get to it. We're going to be talking with a great young man, his company that they are launching, or I shouldn't say they're launching, they already launched it, but they're going to be at CES.

Let's put it that way. At 2026, their company is called Dentomi, and we have Chun Wang on the show with us today. We're going to be talking about his insights, his startup, and what they're doing over there and all that good stuff. He is a PhD fellow specializing in AI and M Health applications in dentistry with a strong focus, on translational research. He's experience in developing AI-driven solutions for oral disease monitoring and treatment design supported by a robust foundation in public health, dedicated to advancing community dentistry through technological innovation and strategic collaboration, aiming to enhance

oral healthcare accessibility and effectiveness for underserved populations. Welcome to Shochun, how are you? Thank you, Chris. It's a great pleasure to be here. It's a pleasure to be here. It's a pleasure to have you as well. Give us any dot coms or dot biz wherever the websites are. You want people to look you guys up on the internets.

Our website is dentany.combe. Set for Cibra. And so people can find that link on the Chris Vos show. Give us a 30,000 overview, what you guys do there at the company. Well, here in Denhamie, we work to bring our health care to everyone at home, be it's daily citizens or people who have mobility issues, you want to help everyone to have access to a certain level of all health care for technology. And what do you find that's lacking?

What was the need that you guys are trying to fill that was lacking maybe in the dentistry field? For example, here in Hong Kong or probably in the States, seeing a dentist may not be the most affordable things for everyone daily. And by our technology, we want to see this such a gap. Like we have some senior adopts here. We have some people who have mobility issues. They probably just cannot go to the dental clinic that regularly or not. or to afford such a poor health care.

And that's something we want to help them with. Affordable health care. We kind of have out of control problems. And do you make, you know, a lot of people don't like the dentist because there's some pain involved. I don't like doctors either because they're, you know, pain involved. So do you guys help mitigate some of that anxiety that people feel and have in dealing with dentists and pain?

Asking for a friend. Well, we do a slightly different. We are tackling such all-health care issues on a more upstream angles before you actually walk into a dental clinic. Like, for example, if our friends have walked into a clinic and saw a dentist before, he or she may have received some of the comments from the dentist or you have not been brushing well

properly and the question we will have is what we are exactly have not been brushed properly by us how we can follow it up at home ourselves I mean most people will forget about it like five minutes after they step up with the clinics

yeah and using our tools we will help you to visualize that's usually at your home on your own smartphone or iPads. So you can just do it properly at your bathroom or laboratory. You do not need to worry about that part on a dental chair. And talk to us about what made you want to create the startup?

Is this your first startup? And was there some sort of personal experience you had in dentistry? What was the scenario behind you going, hey, we need to start a company. We need to fix some of these issues. So this is actually offered my first startup. And you have read to my background. I have been doing some research from academia, actually, and more on the technology and public health.

So you know at our institutions, we do some event, what we call a knowledge exchange. And we go out to the community and do some community service for different parts of population and communities. So when we did such events, we noticed that, especially after COVID, there were increasing difficulties for people to access a dentist. And not only because it's expensive, as mentioned, but also because they are not enough dentists, but just for everyone. So what we thought about, can we do something about it? I mean, we probably can look at some technological means. I mean, probably it's not feasible to send physical dental teams to everywhere.

It's going to be like a sky high course for the government or for the universities. So what we think about is can we use technology to like and use something that is readily available for everyone here in our case it's like a smartphone to bridge such a gap to bring a dentist to everyone's home instead of bringing everyone to the dental cleaners.

That's why we want to start this stuff and start working on these solutions. Yeah, there's lots of solutions that need to take place for a lot of this stuff. You know, they say, you know, the dentists aren't quite a favorite. So anything you can do to ease the pain, make things easier,

and all sorts of stuff. How is AI impactful? My understanding, correct me if I'm wrong, is you guys utilize a lot of AI technology in this. How is that being utilized and making the difference? Well, here in Denton, we train our AI to think and do the visual screening, just like what the dentists do. So, but using our tools, it's actually very easy to use.

it does not require any specialized training or hardware. You can just take an image of your nose with your own smart device, like a phone or iPad, and then our AI, we have a look and see which part of your mode that you have not been brushing properly. You will highlight it in red color. Oh, wow. And something that is like a marginal case, you will be in yellow. You will be able to see on your screen.

that which part will require more attention from you. Then you can do more brushing for yourself properly or consider using dental flaws. It will help you take better control of your all health and you will finally have less known terrial issues or carry that you need to deal with when you go see a dentist. So these are really important. Now, and give me your booth number.

I forgot to ask you that at the beginning. I'll ask you that at the end of the show again, too. Can you give me your booth number of where you guys are going to be at CS? Are you guys at Eureka Park? Is that where you're at? Yes, we will be at the Hong Kong Pavilion of Eureka Park. Our number is 6-3-2-00-205. All right, sounds good then.

And people will be able to see you there? I mean, Eureka Park has some of the most amazing new startups and ideas and concepts. I mentioned we had Gary Shapiro. I don't know if you know who he is. But he's the CEO of the CTA and CES, and a good friend of mine, a wonderful guy. And he was talking about how even like, I can't remember the big company of the CEO that told him that his favorite place at all of CES is in Eureka Park. You'd have to go watch the episode. But he was saying he was surprised that some of even the top CEOs, they love Eureka Park because it's such a fresh business things.

you can see some of the cutting edge, probably futuristic startups that are there because a lot of their ideas are new and changing the world or trying to change the world. And so a lot of CEOs, a lot of people, I mean, even press, we go down to Eureka Park because we're going to find some really interesting stuff. And usually it's kind of on the forefront of problems that need to be solved and stuff. So I'm really excited to learn more about what you guys are doing and how you're doing it. Is there anything special about the booth that people need to know? any features? Sometimes people do giveaways or they have like some sort of interactive setup

for customers at the booth? I will actually prepare an iPad or booth where if you're interested, you can come and have a screening of your mouth. If you do not mind doing it in a semi-public setting of the CES, you can do work on display on. And we are very happy to have a chat about how things can go from here or how you know for potential partner how we can work together for some communities or issues yeah and it looks like one of the product features

you guys have is you guys have have developed a gingivitis screening solution powered by AI so enables health monitoring tell us a little bit more about why this gingeritis screening solution is important maybe give us a groundwork of what gingivitis is of People don't know what that is.

There's always somebody who doesn't. And is this in an app on your smartphone? First, this is actually more web-based tool. It's mostly because we have quite a few feedbacks. There are too many apps on their phones. They don't want to install an extra app. And why exchanger fighters is important, is actually a more academic name for gum information,

which I guess most people will have experienced it a few times in their life. You know, you have your gum swelling, some sort of bleeding, quite common. But it's actually the early stage of more severe issues. Because we know that if just information is not managed and checked properly, there are trends that you can progress into a later state of disease. You can cause your teeth. And we also know there are many research nowadays who have pointed to some association

between like uncontrolled gum information to more severe systemic disease like your lung and your heart and even as part of the period of dementia is now getting a clear picture that all our health that interweights with each other's. So from what we see here, if you can reduce your risk

by taking better of your mouth effing using our tooth, it's a good investment. Ah, a good investment. And yeah, I mean, you've lost a few teeth myself. so I've seen that movie seen that movie what else haven't I asked you about maybe that we should know about

what you guys do there and how you do it is there anything I've missed you find we have covered most of it we were discussing about the disease about the gum information I mean

what we have just mentioned they are probably the case in the States, but in other places of the world, you can be also more severe that the government information did not only cost you your teeth, but may also eat away part of your face as well. I mean, I mean, it's probably more common in Africa than call it no mark in short terms. It's also started with gingerful information. So it's like

Not only we want to Partner with partners in the States To help with different people to access their own health care better We also want to do it more broader scale In the world Have a different part of the regions And see if we can actually contribute To what they call universal health health care

Yeah Oh, universal health care You know, anything we can do to promote health and teeth, I know if your teeth are not good, it kind of can affect the rest of your body and stuff and things like that. So it's really important. So I'm glad you guys are utilizing this AI to take in advance things and make things life easier for everyone because prevention is part of the cure. Do you guys have to deal with HIPAA laws and all that sort of good stuff?

So you have to deal with the security of health records and things like that? Actually, no, at this moment, it's not related to the your channel health record. It's more like straightforward on your smart device. You have a look of your mouth and give you more some of professional advice face on the screenings. It's more on the side of screening and education. Well, that's awesome. That'll work. So as we go out, give

people final pitch out to come see you guys, your booth number at CES, where, I don't know if you know the section or whatever, but where they can find you and final pitch on what you guys do and how you do it and your dot biz. We also have our own linking page, actually, besides our, so we will update our activities on our website and our LinkedIn faculty, so that everyone know what we have been doing. And actually, we have got quite a few exciting things coming up, and we certainly hope you all have to see what we are doing. Yeah. So thank you very much. Give me the booth number and the dot biz one more time as we round out.

Yes. So our company website is Dantomi, D-N-T-O-M-I, dot B-I, and it's set for separate. And then we will be at the CES at the Hong Kong Pavilion at Eureka Park. Our booth number is 632-2-2-2-2-205. We look forward to see you all there. Well, thank you very much, sir. for coming in the show. We really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. It's great pleasure to be here to do the sharing. Thank you. And thanks for our honest for tuning in. Go to goodreads.com and see our further coverage. We'll have a number of people on. We're profiling on the CS show 2026. Be sure to

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