tmamic

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by tmamic 7y ago
I am not sure I understand your question. Could you be more specific?
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by tmamic 7y ago
Easy, we ensure that same dentists don't work on the same case. Patient can choose who will do the clinical examination, but can't choose who does the diagnosis (they can only set the minimum ranking position of diagnostician. Sim
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by tmamic 7y ago
Yes, dentistry is in many ways different from the rest of medicine. It's kind of separated from it. However, that is not the source of the problem. It's the fact that average person uses dental care more often than any other medic
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by tmamic 7y ago
Our philosophy has to key rules: 1. Diagnostician shouldn't treat. 2. No-one should review themselves. This eliminates so much fraud and mistakes.
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by tmamic 7y ago
We are not aiming to change the way you purchase dental services. Rather, we focus on ensuring you don't buy unnecessary dental services. Let's say you are Delta Dental, these 28% are basically an insurance fraud. If you could get
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by tmamic 7y ago
Let's chat. You can reach me at tomislav.mamic at protonmail.com
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by tmamic 7y ago
The cost of material is only smaller part of the price. High price has more to do with the imbalance between the supply and demand. Supply growth is limited by the number of orthodontists. This is due to the fact that every orthodontic trea
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by tmamic 7y ago
Thanks, I'll reach out.
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by tmamic 7y ago
One of the reasons I keep working on this project is that I am in a similar situation. When I started researching this topic, I did a test. I made x-rays, and my friend dentist took dental photographs of me. Then I had sent these over email
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by tmamic 7y ago
I believe Atlantic had such an article recently. Good starting read is "How dentists rip us off" from Readers Digest. However, it's a bell curve. There are extremely moral and extremely immoral people. Some of them are dentis
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by tmamic 7y ago
Thank you!
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by tmamic 7y ago
I don't think that's necessary. Most people living in urban areas have x-ray practice in a close vicinity. Even for those who don't, a home kit wouldn't justify the cost. You want to make a standard high quality x-ray se
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by tmamic 7y ago
I call it "verified diagnosis". We use game theory to extract the truth. Think prisoner's dilemma for dentists. Edit: Not in US, but building planning to launch there. You can't practice dentistry in US if you haven&#x27
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by tmamic 7y ago
It depends, here they say mostly fillings. But there is only so much implants you can sell to a person, and acceptance is lower. Research that showed the 28% figure: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3
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by tmamic 7y ago
Dental treatments, besides being very expensive, are often (up to 28%) unnecessary. This happens because no-one keeps dentists in check. I am trying to make dental treatment and diagnosis reviews easy, cheap, reliable and fast.
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by tmamic 7y ago
It's almost exactly what I am working on.
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by tmamic 7y ago
You are absolutely right. Dentists are able to recommend wrong therapy plans without patients knowing. Even when a patient gets the correct diagnosis, they can be recommended drastically different therapy plans. This happens because there a
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by tmamic 7y ago
This problem is the biggest in dentistry. Most dentists are perfectly capable of providing the correct diagnosis. Unfortunately, even if and when they are, there are obstacles: - Weak incentives to provide an accurate diagnosis - Strong inc
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Dental Over-Treatments, an Overlooked Epidemic(denther.com)
1 points by tmamic 7y ago|0 comments
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by tmamic 7y ago
https://denther.com Using game theory to extract the correct dental diagnosis from multiple dentists.
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by tmamic 7y ago
I might have a gig for someone like this next month. How can I reach you?
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Ask HN: How do you feel about user experience of dental services?
1 points by tmamic 7y ago|0 comments
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by tmamic 7y ago
You are targeting dentists here, but patients are the ones buying the insurance. Even patients often don't have a choice - think employee benefits and medicaid/medicare. Even if dentists do enroll in this, what happens when a pati
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by tmamic 7y ago
>they could reliably distinguish cancerous moles from benign ones better than individual dermatologists Do you have anything published about this?
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by tmamic 8y ago
Lack of competition makes you less resistant to competitors.
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Ethereum is game-changing technology, literally(medium.com)
3 points by tmamic 8y ago|0 comments