Senior Clinical Specialist
CurrentSonendo®, Inc. is a privately held, venture-backed company developing innovative technologies to transform endodontic therapy. Sonendo’s Multisonic Ultracleaning™ technology addresses the challenges that currently exist in endodontic treatment, offering a solution to the problems that exist within traditional root canal therapy.GentleWave®—Sonendo’s Multisonic Ultracleaning technology—aims to improve the clinical quality of root canal therapy, as well as the business economics. The GentleWave system utilizes multisonic technology for comprehensive cleaning, rather than instrumentation alone, resulting in a higher level of cleaning.Traditional Root Canal Therapy:• Involves aggressive and ineffective instruments, which can make the process painful and the result highly variable• Root canal instruments remove healthy tooth structure which can result in a weakened tooth• Instruments do not reach into the microscopic tubules• Creates smear layer that leads to future bacteria growthGentleWave Multisonic Ultracleaning Therapy:• The closed loop, fluid-based GentleWave system is designed to easily and safely loosen and remove all tissue and bacteria from the canal• More of the structural integrity of the tooth is preserved due to minimal instrumentation throughout the procedure• GentleWave results are highly predictable and offer a significantly cleaner treatment area than current root canal therapy standardsSonendo investors include Fjord Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, NeoMed Management, OrbiMed Advisors LLC, SEB Private Equity, and Themes Investment Partners.SpecialtiesEndodontics, Root Canal TherapyWebsitehttp://www.sonendo.comhttp://www.gentlewave.com