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Might as well have bright red flashing letters at the top of the page saying "WE ARE QUACKS." It's possible this product is great, but my immediate reaction to any medical product that positions itself as the underdog fighting against the evil establishment is to run far, far away.

Sadly, as much as I would like the content all to be true, 'Quack' is my assessment too. They say they have been selling this in Austria for 11 years but want crowdfunding to take it abroad. Somehow that does not add up.

And in my experience dentists are really pretty open to innovation, especially 3d scanning and machining. Most recently I got a grinding guard and instead of taking an impression my dentist actually used a Danish scanner that pieced together a couple of hundred individual photos.

Not every great inventor is also a great businessman.

Actually, this is rather rare.

History is full of examples of superior tech/ideas struggling or even failing because of this.

Allow yourself to assume this is one of these cases before dismissing it based on the reverse assumption.

Also consider that Austria != the valley.

Immediate reaction from me too, the "dentists won't adopt it cause it makes them lose money" rings exactly like the story of the air powered car and similar.

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