Dr. Christopher Balaban is a practicing dentist in Fort Myers, Florida and served as Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Overjet – the industry leader in dental artificial intelligence. He holds a master’s degree in Biomedical Science, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Boston University’s Goldman School of Dental Medicine, where he held a faculty position in the department of general dentistry at the rank of Clinical Instructor. He is a member of the national dental honors society, Omicron Kappa Upsilon, and a fellow of the American College of Dentists.
His passion for both dentistry and technology came together when he joined a group of scientists from MIT 7 years ago, to help grow Overjet into a company that is helping to shape the future of dentistry through Artificial Intelligence for the next generation of dentists. To date, Overjet has received 9 FDA clearances for its Dental Assist AI product line and has been named one of the top 100 AI start-up companies worldwide.
Dr. Balaban and his team have written numerous articles on artificial intelligence and its application to dentistry, which have been published in Compendium, IDH, IDT and JADA and Nature. He was a leading contributor to the ADA’s seminal whitepaper on Augmented Intelligence where he lead the authorship of the ‘Clinical Use of Dental AI’ section. He and his clinical team are working with some of the largest DSOs, insurance carriers and academic institutions to adopt dental AI into their operations and document its benefits.