# SmileMate

> An AI-assisted virtual consultation tool for dental providers, built inside quip professional and teledentistry stack. Scores 20+ clinical observations and...

Topics: AI & Machine Learning, Healthcare Tech, Beauty & Wellness, Consumer Goods, Digital Marketing, Subscription · Author: Alan Wizemann

SmileMate is a clinician-facing virtual consultation platform that turns a few patient photos into a structured oral-health assessment and an AI-generated smile preview. Built into quip professional and teledentistry stack, the tool scores a patient dentition across alignment, gum health, and tooth health, surfaces findings as color-coded severity cards, and then lets the provider visualize the patient smile during and after treatment with a before/after slider, converting a clinical exam into a persuasive, consumer-friendly treatment conversation. As CDTO, I oversaw the digital product and technology behind quip move from a subscription oral-care brand into connected professional care, of which AI-assisted assessment and smile simulation were a centerpiece.

## Challenge

quip had built scale as a connected-toothbrush DTC subscription, but professional dental conversations still lived outside the product. Dentists and orthodontists relied on in-chair exams and printed materials to communicate findings and treatment options, which limited reach and conversion. The opportunity was to give clinicians a virtual consultation tool that could turn a few patient photos into both a structured clinical assessment and a consumer-friendly visual outcome they could actually picture.

## Impact

Shipped SmileMate as part of quip expansion from consumables into connected professional dentistry. The tool scores 20+ clinical observations grouped by alignment, gum health, and tooth health, surfaces them as color-coded severity cards on a per-patient record, and renders a photo-based before/after smile simulation gated by treatment phase (During and After) and outcome (Alignment, Whitening, or both). The provider console sits inside a broader clinician workflow (Patients, Virtual Consultation, Treatment catalogue, Doctor, Settings), positioning the tool as a real clinical product rather than a consumer gimmick. Note: conversion, consult volume, and usage outcomes were not present in the sourced files and are not asserted here.

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