Dental hardware
Denticta
DEPLOYED · 2025A chairside device that turns spoken dental charting into a structured clinical note. Running in a working operatory.
Parameters
RD-03- HARDWARE
- custom ESP32-S3 board, KiCad, JLCPCB
- PIPELINE
- operatory audio, transcript, structured note
- RECORD
- writes into the practice's chart software
- STATE
- deployed, in daily use
Build log
Charting is the part of an exam that a dentist does twice: once out loud to the assistant, once again into the software afterwards. Denticta removes the second pass. The device sits chairside, captures the operatory, and produces a structured note in the format the practice's chart software already expects.
The hardware is a custom ESP32-S3 board I laid out in KiCad and had assembled at JLCPCB. The software half is a HIPAA-shaped web app — field-level encryption, an audit trail, and connectors into the practice management system — so the note lands where the clinician already works instead of in another tab.
This is the only thing I have built that is deployed and used daily by someone who is not me, which makes it the entry on this page I trust most.