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Smart Denture Conversions LLC is a privately owned company headquartered in Apex, North Carolina, established in 2019. It operates as a product line under its parent company, Smart On X, which was formed in 2024. The company is relatively small, with an estimated 1-10 employees and an approximate annual revenue of $855,550 for Smart On X.
The company specializes in developing and selling dental implant solutions and techniques for "All-on-X" provisional prosthetic conversions. Their core offering, Smart Denture Conversions (SDC) technology, aims to convert removable dentures into fixed prostheses more efficiently, reducing chair time for practitioners and improving patient outcomes. Key products include the "Separable Fastener Technology," "Rapid Set Pickup Acrylic," "Omnibut" (Omni-Directional Multi-unit Abutment System), "Prosthetic Scan Bodies," "Silicone Dams," and "Cementable TiBases," designed to enhance the strength, fit, and aesthetic of provisional prosthetics.
Smart Denture Conversions LLC is an operating company that actively asserts its patent portfolio. In July 2024, the company announced it had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Straumann USA, LLC, alleging infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 11,937,992 and 11,311,354 related to their dental conversion technology. The single tracked case, Straumann USA LLC v. Smart Denture Conversions LLC, where Smart Denture Conversions LLC appears as a defendant before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), is a likely challenge (e.g., an Inter Partes Review) to one or more of the patents it asserted against Straumann in the district court action.
A post-grant review (PGR) proceeding initiated by Straumann USA LLC against Smart Denture Conversions LLC before the PTAB, challenging US patent 12156781. The case is currently pending and has been instituted.