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Practice tips, product updates, and everything dental AI — from the Marea team.
The most common fear we hear from dental practices isn't that AI will replace anyone. It's that AI will make a mistake and the practice will be responsible. It's a fair concern. Here's how we think about it.
Most dental practices lose 3–5 new patients every week to a single predictable problem: the call that comes in after the front desk leaves. We looked at the data from our own customers to understand what's actually happening.
Every dental AI company says they're not replacing anyone. Most practices don't believe it. The real answer is more specific than the usual reassurance — and more honest.
Not a survey. Real conversations with 50 dentists who had used AI clinical documentation — some Marea customers, some not. The answers were more candid than we expected.
The Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting is the biggest dental conference in North America. We came back from three days on the floor with sore feet, a full notes doc, and a sharper sense of what practices actually need.
We built Marea with a set of assumptions about what dental practices needed and how they'd adopt new technology. Some of those assumptions were right. A few were pretty wrong. Here's an honest account.
A referral letter is three paragraphs. So why does writing one take most dentists the better part of half an hour? We asked. The answers were more interesting than we expected.
Law firms have AI. Accounting practices have AI. Hospital systems have AI. Dental practices, by and large, don't. Why the lag, and what's different about 2026.
Yankee Dental Congress brings a particular kind of attendee — Northeast practices, independent operators, a crowd that's been around long enough to be skeptical of everything. We liked it.
Before any dental practice signs up, they ask about HIPAA. It's the right question. Here's exactly how we answer it — including the parts that are more complicated than a simple yes.
Marea's first conference booth — Denver, January 2026. What we heard, what surprised us, and why one question from a practice manager in the first hour set the tone for the whole weekend.
A two-location practice in the Pacific Northwest turned us down in March 2025, again in July, and then reached out in November asking to start immediately. What changed — and what it tells us about how dental practices actually adopt new technology.