Pearl, an LA-based artificial intelligence (AI) company that provides dental AI solutions, has raised $58 million in funding, the largest-ever investment in dental AI.

The landmark investment enables Pearl to further expand its dental AI solutions and meaningfully improve oral health outcomes for patients.

With this investment, Pearl will continue to advance innovation in technologies that enhance the health of dental patients around the world by expanding its line of dental AI products, broadening its regulatory and patent portfolio, and increasing global access to the transformative benefits of AI in dentistry. At present, Pearl's machine learning and computer vision tools solve a core challenge in dentistry: inconsistency in diagnostic accuracy, which directly impacts the quality of patient care. The company's AI serves as a real-time aid to help dentists read patient radiographs, deliver consistent, objective, and accurate diagnoses, and clearly communicate findings to patients with precision, clarity, and confidence.

Since receiving the first-ever FDA clearance for AI software to help dental professionals detect multiple different pathologies and other conditions in x-rays, Pearl's clinical AI has gained regulatory authorisations for chairside use in over 120 countries and recognition among TIME's Best Inventions. The company plans to use the funding both to accelerate ongoing development of computer vision capabilities - including detection and tracking of disease in 3D and other imaging modalities - and introduce new AI tools to improve patient treatment planning, insurance claim approvals and dental education.

Pearl's technology is used in dental practices across six continents and is commercially available to over 500,000 dental practices and millions of dental professionals worldwide. The company has also integrated its AI into dozens of popular imaging and practice management systems and is the preferred radiologic AI provider for leading dental technology distributors.

For more information on how Pearl's suite of solutions can enhance the dental practice, visit https://hellopearl.com/.