2025 Annual Session attendees in Philadelphia enjoyed a wealth of innovation-themed content offering in-depth insight into some of today’s most noteworthy products.
Throughout the meeting, which took place April 25-27, orthodontists voted for their favorite products entered by 14 exhibiting competitors in the 2025 New Product Showcase Awards program. The winners were:
● 2025 New Products Showcase – Practice Product Award Winner: Dental Pain Eraser Practice Referral Kits by Synapse Dental. Designed to help you build referrals and relationships by giving the gift of patient comfort to your dental colleagues, the kit offers custom branding for your practice.
● 2025 New Products Showcase – Treatment Product Award Winner: DentalMonitoring + by DentalMonitoring. Bringing powerful artificial intelligence functionality into real-time tracking of tooth movement and occlusion, DentalMonitoring+ provides enhanced support for clinical control and adaptive treatment planning.
Taking 2nd and 3rd-place honors, respectively in the Treatment Product category were uDesign® Cloud by uLab Systems and ReliaWax by Reliance Orthodontic Products. In the Practice Product category, the EPAX DX10 16K Pro Dental 3D Printer by EPAX Dental finished in 2nd place and Clenchy U by Clenchy Ortho was the 3rd place product.
OrthoBerry Wins OrthoTank Pitch Event
Four companies pitched for a chance at an investment at the 4th annual OrthoTank Pitch Event, hosted by Dr. Trista Felty. Judges included orthodontic entrepreneurs Dr. Chris Bonebreak Jackson, Dr. Brandon Owen and Dr. Bobbi Peterson, and dental business and technology entrepreneurs, Dr. Jeremy Krell and Mr. Todd Blankenbecler.
The judges chose AI-driven new patient intake platform and 2025 AAO Ortho Innovator award recipient OrthoBerry as the winning presentation. OrthoBerry will now advance to vetting for an investment by the AAO Business Development Committee.
The judges also gave positive reviews to the other OrthoTank presenters, Pepcare, Viceph and Ortho Calculator.
