Smile Brands selects Pearl as AI partner. * June 15, 2026 * 3 minutes read * 2 hours ago Pearl's dental AI platform helps Smile Brands scale diagnostic clarity and clinical consistency, leading to improved patient trust. Pearl, the global leader in dental AI solutions, today announced that Smile Brands, one of the nation's leading providers of business support services to dental groups across the U.S., has selected Pearl as its dental AI partner. Smile Brands' selection of Pearl followed a rigorous, multi-vendor evaluation process, where Pearl demonstrated leading clinical performance and a unique ability to integrate seamlessly into existing care delivery workflows. Smile Brands and Pearl have completed an initial pilot of Radiographic AI with promising results. During the pilot, Smile Brands observed measurable improvements in how clinicians presented diagnoses, which led to an increase in same-day treatment acceptance, an outcome closely tied to patient understanding and trust. The companies have begun rolling out the product to a significant number of offices across the system, with the goal of full deployment in the coming months. In large-scale dental organizations, the challenge is no longer access to data. It is consistency in how that data is interpreted and acted upon. Pearl addresses this gap by embedding AI directly into the clinical workflow, helping standardize how radiographs are read, understood, and communicated across every location, while also creating a foundation for broader clinical and operational intelligence across the practice. At the point of care, Pearl brings real-time radiologic analysis into the imaging workflow, automatically identifying potential pathologies on dental radiographs and presenting them with clear, visual evidence during diagnosis. By making findings more visible, clinicians are better equipped to engage patients before conditions progress. More transparent diagnostic processes help clinicians communicate findings with confidence and enable patients to better understand and move forward with recommended treatment. Beyond diagnosis, Pearl's platform extends that same layer of intelligence across the broader dental workflow, supporting clinical calibration, surfacing trends in treatment planning, and enabling more consistent decision-making across providers, locations, and time. By connecting insight at the chairside to system-level visibility, Smile Brands can continuously improve how care is delivered across its network, reinforcing a more proactive, prevention-oriented approach to dentistry. This system-level visibility is increasingly critical for organizations like Smile Brands that are working to reduce variability in care while preserving clinician autonomy, a balance that sits at the heart of modern dental support organizations. "What really set Pearl apart for us was their partner-first approach, their forward-thinking vision for technology, and how easy the platform was to use," said Steve Bilt, CEO of Smile Brands. "Together, we're creating new opportunities for our providers to learn from each other, collaborate more closely with patients, and ultimately deliver an even higher standard of care." "At Smile Brands, they're not just scaling operations, but also scaling a standard of care," said Ophir Tanz, Founder and CEO of Pearl. "That requires infrastructure that ensures every clinician has the same level of diagnostic clarity and every patient receives the same level of understanding. With Pearl, that foundation begins with radiologic insight and extends across the workflows that turn diagnosis into action, helping enable earlier intervention and better long-term outcomes. We're proud to partner with Smile Brands to help deliver consistent, high-quality care across every location they serve." About Pearl Pearl is a dental AI company committed to enhancing how patient care is delivered. Founded in 2019 by a team with decades of experience developing successful, enterprise-grade computer vision solutions, Pearl introduced the first-ever FDA-cleared AI capable of reading and instantly identifying diseases in dental X-rays. With regulatory clearance in 120 countries, Pearl's AI assists dentists in making precise clinical decisions and effectively communicating with patients, thereby transforming the dental care experience worldwide. As dentistry's global AI leader, Pearl is committed to the ongoing innovation of robust, accessible AI tools that improve patient health outcomes and build greater trust in dental medicine. To request a demo, please visit hellopearl.com/demo. About Smile Brands Smile Brands, based in Costa Mesa, California, is one of the largest providers of dental support services in the United States. Smile Brands supports a portfolio of 600 locations with over 80 brands, including well-known regional brands: Bright Now! Dental, Castle Dental, Merit Dental, Midwest Dental, Monarch Dental, and Mondovi Dental. The company provides comprehensive business services through exclusive long-term agreements with affiliate dental groups, allowing affiliated practices to spend more time caring for patients and less time on the administrative, marketing, and financial aspects of operating a dental office. The organization receives frequent recognition for its award-winning culture and has been recognized as a "Best Place to Work" by Glassdoor, Comparably, Stevie(R) Awards, and more.

Smile Brands, one of the largest US dental support service providers, has selected Pearl as its dental AI partner following a multi-vendor evaluation process. The company is rolling out Pearl's Radiographic AI across its network of 600 locations after a successful pilot showed improvements in diagnosis presentation and same-day treatment acceptance. Pearl's platform provides real-time radiologic analysis, automatically identifying potential pathologies on dental X-rays and presenting visual evidence during diagnosis. The system aims to standardise how radiographs are interpreted across locations whilst supporting clinical calibration and treatment planning consistency. Founded in 2019, Pearl developed the first FDA-cleared AI for reading dental X-rays and holds regulatory clearance in 120 countries. Smile Brands expects full deployment across its network within coming months.

Pearl brings Dental AI natively into Dentrix Ascend. Integration delivers Pearl's best-in-class diagnostic AI directly inside Henry Schein One's cloud-based dental technology platform, eliminating workflow friction and workarounds. April 30, 2026 LOS ANGELES - Pearl, the global leader in dental AI solutions, today announced a native integration with Dentrix Ascend, the cloud-based dental technology platform from Henry Schein One. Pearl surfaces real-time pathology findings as x-rays are captured, without clinicians ever leaving the Dentrix Ascend platform. "This integration puts Pearl directly into the workflows practices already rely on, working in real time to reduce friction, eliminate guesswork, and free dentists to focus on patient care." Dental AI at the point of care has long been held back by fragmented workflows. Switching between platforms, importing images manually, and reconciling findings across systems adds friction that slows clinical teams and dilutes the value of AI. Native integration entirely eliminates that friction. "The best AI in dentistry should take work off the clinician - not add to it," said Ophir Tanz, Founder and CEO of Pearl. "This integration puts Pearl directly into the workflows practices already rely on, working in real time to reduce friction, eliminate guesswork, and free dentists to focus on patient care." For clinical teams, the experience is seamless. As radiographs are captured in Dentrix Ascend, Pearl identifies and displays findings including decay, bone loss, root absences, calculus, and other pathologies within the Dentrix Ascend interface. No separate login. No parallel window. No manual export. The integration puts AI at the point of care, surfacing findings that support clinician judgment. "This integration reflects a shift toward an open dental technology ecosystem where clinicians can choose the tools that serve them best, and where workflows ensure streamlined dental AI access at the point of care, " noted Erica Zerante, VP of Partnerships at Pearl. Pearl has deployed AI across radiographic analysis, clinical documentation, and revenue cycle workflows, giving practices integrated AI infrastructure that connects diagnosis to downstream operations. The Dentrix Ascend integration extends that infrastructure to one of dentistry's most popular cloud dental technology platforms, making high-performance AI accessible to a significant new segment of the market. The integration will be available for all Dentrix Ascend users in the coming weeks. Practices can learn more and activate Pearl's integration through their Dentrix Ascend account or by visiting hellopearl.com/demo.