AlgoSmile
AlgoSmile is an AI decision-support tool for clear aligner orthodontics. From four clinical questions and three photographs, it estimates the number of Smilers aligners a case needs, rates its complexity and generates a photorealistic simulation of the patient's future smile.
What is AlgoSmile?
AlgoSmile is a decision-support tool that applies artificial intelligence to clear aligner orthodontics. Its publisher, the French company Biotech Dental, presents it as the combination of four artificial intelligence systems dedicated to orthodontics, and delivers it inside the Smilers space rather than as a standalone product: access is reserved to Smilers and Smilers Expert users.
The tool answers two questions at the moment a treatment is being discussed with a patient. First, it predicts how many Smilers aligners the case is likely to require, and rates that case across three levels of difficulty. Second, it generates a photorealistic simulation of the patient's future smile. Both outputs come from a deliberately light input: the practitioner answers four key questions about the patient's clinical situation and takes three photographs of the teeth. The result is announced in about twenty seconds.
The value proposition is explicitly two-sided. For practitioners, Biotech Dental emphasises an improved quote acceptance rate, time saved through instant estimation, more controlled predictability, clearer patient communication and easier quote preparation. For patients, it emphasises an immediate visual projection, a better understanding of the treatment, less uncertainty about its duration and cost, and an easier decision.
The publisher is unusually explicit about the limits of its own product. The site states that AlgoSmile is a visualisation tool producing a predictive estimate for information purposes only, and that this prediction constitutes neither an official Smilers treatment plan nor a substitute for the expertise and analysis of a qualified practitioner.
What the site does not provide is equally material. There is no published price, no free plan and no trial. There is no API and no mobile application. Above all, the legal notice, the terms and conditions and the privacy policy are unedited templates — two of them still carrying the notice that they are sample texts which cannot be published — so nothing is documented about how the patient photographs the tool processes are hosted, used or retained.
What it does
- Estimate the number of Smilers aligners a case is likely to require
- Rate the difficulty of the case across three levels
- Generate a photorealistic simulation of the patient's future smile
- Return both results in about twenty seconds
- Support quote preparation with an estimate based on objective data
- Help a patient visualise the outcome before accepting a treatment plan
When to use AlgoSmile / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if AlgoSmile is the right fit.
When to use AlgoSmile
- Orthodontists who already prescribe Smilers clear aligners
- General dentists who want a fast case reading before quoting a treatment
- Dental assistants who capture patient photographs and prepare treatment estimates
- Dental practice managers working on quote acceptance rates
- Clinicians who need a visual aid to explain aligner treatment to a hesitant patient
When not to use AlgoSmile
- Practices that do not work with the Smilers aligner system, since access is reserved to Smilers and Smilers Expert users
- Clinicians looking for a regulated diagnostic device or an official, binding treatment plan
- Buyers who need published pricing before they can evaluate or budget a tool
- Teams that need an API or a mobile application to fit the tool into their own workflow
- Organisations whose procurement requires documented processing of patient images before adoption
How to use AlgoSmile
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Check that the practice holds a Smilers or Smilers Expert account, which conditions access
- Sign in to the Smilers space, where AlgoSmile is built in
- Open AlgoSmile from within that space; there is nothing to install or configure
- Answer the four key questions about the patient's clinical situation
- Take three photographs of the patient's teeth
- Submit the case and wait roughly twenty seconds for the result
- Read the estimated number of aligners and the complexity level assigned to the case
- Show the photorealistic smile simulation to the patient during the consultation
- Use the estimate to prepare the treatment quote
- Treat every output as an indicative estimate, never as a treatment plan
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Very light input: four questions and three photographs, with no impression or scan required
- Delivers a clinical reading and a patient-facing visual in the same pass
- Built into a space practitioners already use, so there is nothing to install or integrate
- Results are returned almost immediately, within the consultation itself
- The publisher states the limits of the prediction instead of overselling it
- The publisher is an identifiable French industrial company, verifiable in the commercial register
Cons
- Access is restricted to Smilers and Smilers Expert users, so the tool cannot be adopted on its own
- No public pricing of any kind, and no free plan or trial
- Legal notice, terms and privacy policy are unedited templates that state they cannot be published
- Nothing is published about how patient photographs are hosted, processed or retained
- No contact email address; the site offers only a web form
- No API and no mobile application
- No published evidence of how accurate the aligner and complexity estimates are
Pricing & Plans
No pricing is published. AlgoSmile has no pricing page, and the site states no amount for the tool, which is presented as available within the Smilers space to Smilers and Smilers Expert users. Neither a free plan nor a free trial is announced. The only monetary figure carried anywhere on the domain, 85.00 EUR, belongs to a leftover Wix demonstration store dating from 2022 and bears no relation to this product. Pricing must therefore be obtained directly from the publisher.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how AlgoSmile handles your data.
GDPR overview
Biotech Dental is established in France, so the GDPR applies to it as a matter of law. The site, however, never claims compliance: searching every archived page returns no occurrence of GDPR or RGPD. The three documents that would normally carry such commitments — legal notice, terms and conditions, and privacy policy — are unedited Wix templates, two of which still state that they are sample texts and cannot be published. No data protection officer, no Article 27 representative, no lawful basis, no data subject rights procedure and no contact address appear on algosmile.io. The publisher does designate a DPO, but only on its separate corporate site. The compliance flag is therefore left blank rather than negative: the site neither asserts nor denies compliance.
Who owns the data?
The site does not answer this question. The AlgoSmile privacy policy is an unedited Wix template: it still carries the notice that it is a sample text which cannot be published, and it merely lists the headings a real policy should cover. The terms and conditions page is in the same state. Consequently nothing published by the site states who owns the clinical answers, the patient photographs and the simulations submitted to or produced by the tool, what Biotech Dental may do with them, or which third parties may receive them. Practitioners handling patient images should obtain these commitments contractually from the publisher, because none of them exist in writing on the site.
Reuse rights
Nothing on the site addresses reuse. Because the terms and conditions are an unedited template, there is no licence grant, no restriction and no permission statement covering what a practitioner may do with the estimates and simulations the tool returns. The only published limit is clinical rather than contractual: AlgoSmile states that its output is a predictive estimate provided for information purposes only, and that it is neither an official Smilers treatment plan nor a substitute for a qualified practitioner's analysis. Whether a simulation may be shown to the patient, filed in their record, or reused in the practice's own communication is simply not documented anywhere.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting information is published. The privacy policy that would normally carry it is an unedited template, and there is no trust, security or subprocessor page. The only observable technical fact concerns the marketing site alone: algosmile.io is a Wix site resolving to an anycast address operated by Wix.com Ltd, which says nothing about where the application itself runs. AlgoSmile is delivered inside the Smilers space, on a separate host belonging to the publisher, and that platform's hosting is not documented publicly either. No hosting country, no region, no subprocessor list and no transfer mechanism is stated anywhere on the site. Since the tool processes photographs of patients, prospective users should ask the publisher directly for the hosting jurisdiction and for a data processing agreement; neither can be established from what is published.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting AlgoSmile.
- An estimate shown to a patient is easily heard as a promise: if the final aligner count or the aesthetic result differs, the disappointment lands on the practitioner, not on the tool
- A photorealistic smile simulation is persuasive by construction, and used at the point of sale it can weigh on a patient's consent more heavily than the clinical argument itself
- Leaning on an automatic complexity rating case after case can quietly erode a clinician's own assessment skill, which is exactly the judgement the tool says it does not replace
- Patient photographs are health data, yet nothing is published about how they are transmitted, stored, retained or deleted
- The legal notice, terms and privacy policy are unedited templates, so no contractual commitment about the service or the data can be relied on
- The benefit the publisher advertises first is a higher quote acceptance rate, a commercial framing that can pull the tool away from clinical decision support and towards selling
- No accuracy figures are published, so there is no way to judge how far the estimate can be trusted on an atypical or borderline case
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Technically negligible. AlgoSmile is a web feature built into the Smilers space, so there is nothing to install, configure or connect: no API key, no integration, no administration. The practitioner signs in, answers four questions and supplies three photographs taken with an ordinary camera. The real barrier is commercial rather than technical: access is reserved to Smilers and Smilers Expert users, so a practice that does not already work with the Smilers system cannot simply sign up. No onboarding guide or documentation is published.
Deployment
Supported languages
Behind AlgoSmile
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
What does AlgoSmile actually do?
How do I get access to it?
What do I have to provide to get a result?
How long does it take?
Is the result a treatment plan?
How much does it cost?
Is there a mobile app or an API?
What does the site say about patient data?
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Who publishes AlgoSmile?
Should you pick AlgoSmile?
AlgoSmile is a narrow tool, and that is its strength. It does one thing — turn four questions and three photographs into an aligner count, a complexity rating and a photorealistic smile simulation — and it does it inside a space its users are already working in, fast enough to be used in front of the patient. For a practice already committed to Smilers aligners, the friction of adoption is close to zero, and the publisher deserves credit for stating the limits of its own prediction rather than overselling it.
The reservations are documentary rather than functional. Nothing is published about price, so the tool cannot be evaluated or budgeted from the site. More seriously, the legal notice, the terms and conditions and the privacy policy are unedited templates, two of which still say in so many words that they are sample texts and cannot be published. For a product that processes photographs of patients' mouths — health data — that gap is not cosmetic: there is no published hosting location, no retention period, no deletion procedure and no processing agreement to rely on. A leftover demonstration store from 2022, still online with an unrelated 85 EUR article, points the same way: the site's periphery has not been maintained with the care the product itself shows.
The publisher, by contrast, is solid and verifiable — a French company registered since 2013, with a substantial capital base and a confirmed VAT identity. The sensible reading is that AlgoSmile is a credible clinical aid whose commercial and legal documentation has not caught up with it. Practices should ask Biotech Dental directly for pricing and for written data processing terms before putting patient images through it.
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