Dentroid is leading the revolution of photonics & robotics in dentistry & beyond

We drive innovation through the application of photonics and miniaturised robotics to create a pain free dental experience.

Dentroid is an Australian startup company founded by a dentist and an engineer, Omar Zuaiter and Alaa Habeb, with a premise that everyone deserves a beautiful smile and healthy mouth with the help of pain-free, precise dental treatment.

Dental Treatments Facts

70
%

Prevalence

70% of dental dental procedures use needles.

70
%

Anxiety

70% of all people feel uneasy or are concerned about the idea of oral needles.

50
%

Pain

50% of patients feel oral pain during their dental treatment.

30
%

Delay

30% miss or delay dental appointments due to anxiety.

84
%

Dentist Fatigue

84% of dentists are constantly stressed and burnt out at their workplace.

Our Story

Unfortunately, fear of pain leads to fewer visits to the dental office and more last-minute cancellations, which only complicate oral health issues and make it more difficult and expensive to treat. A vicious cycle is consequently formed.

During a casual chat in2015, Omar Zuaiter (a dentist) and Alaa Habeb (anengineer) marvelled at the conundrum that almost everything in the dental clinic seems to exude anxiety by design, from terrifying needles to noisy drills to suffocating sprays and pain.

In response, Omar and Alaa launched Dentroid in 2017 to pioneer a distinctive human-centric rather than tooth-centric approach. 

Guided by this founding principle, Dentroid has been harnessing the synergetic power of photonics and robotics and developing new technologies that will replace needles, drills and sprays to unleash the full potential of dentistry for patients and dentists alike.

The collaborative dream team

Dentroid has assembled a stellar multidisciplinary team of world-renowned experts bringing a wealth of knowledge across dentistry and medicine, engineering, robotics, physics, medical sciences and AI informatics together with some of the brightest  commercialisation and growth minds who helped scale startups form concepts on a napkin to multibillion giants.
Leadership
Prof. Tim Hirst
Chairman
Dr Omar Zuaiter
Cofounder and CEO
Mr Alaa Habeb
Cofounder and CTO
Mr Michael Gregg
Director
Dr. Jason Chaffey
Chief Operating Officer
Prof. Laurence Walsh
Chief Dental Officer
Advisory board
Dr Andrew Sutton
Advisor
Professor Heiko Spallek
Advisor
A/P Max Guzzato
Advisor
Dr Robert Convissar
Advisor
Mr Steven Kennedy
Advisor
Dr Yahya Shehabi
Advisor
Collaborators
Professor Andrei Rode
Collaborator, ANU
Professor Dzung Dao
Collaborator, Griffith University
Dr Lee Walsh
Regulatory Consultant
Dr Ludovic Rapp
Collaborator, ANU
Dr Peter Woodfield
Collaborator, Griffith University
Professor Roy George
Collaborator, Griffith University
Professor Steve Madden
Collaborator, ANU
Dr Van Dau
Collaborator, Griffith University