At a time when Denver business leaders are trying to promote the metro area as a pioneer in health care technology and innovation, a major foundation today put its own spin on that effort, offering its first-ever grants to research groups and for-profit companies working on out-of-the-box solutions to try to improve oral health care.
Delta Dental Foundation of Colorado — an arm of the state's largest dental insurance company — issued a trio of roughly $50,000 stipends to entrepreneurs working on developing items ranging from bacteria-resistant retainers to regenerative materials for teeth.
Though the foundation won’t receive any product equity or other benefits in return for its grants, its leaders believe the money will spur progress on some of the most persistent problems to plague people’s mouths.
“This is really cutting edge, and these ideas and these technologies are new,” foundation CEO Allison Cusick said. “We see them as being able to be the next generation of how dental problems are treated — and how they are prevented.”
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