The company

Oral health, automated.

Okare AI is building the intelligence layer that dentistry has never had — starting with the odontogram and expanding toward a full oral-systemic health platform.

The mission

A $600B industry. Zero intelligence layer.

Dentistry generates more clinical data per patient visit than almost any other specialty — photos, charts, notes, histories. And yet virtually none of that data is analysed systematically. Every dentist in every clinic is working from memory, intuition, and manual records.

The result is a system where clinical quality depends on individual variation, where early findings go undetected, and where 125 hours of dentist time per year vanishes into administration.

Okare AI is building the intelligence layer that dentistry has never had — starting with the odontogram, because that's where clinical data begins, and expanding toward a full oral-systemic health platform.

The founder

Built by someone who understands both worlds.

Dr. Shazia Akbar
Founder & CEO

Dr. Shazia Akbar

Shazia holds a PhD in Computer Science and has spent over a decade at the intersection of medical imaging and machine learning — first at NYU, then through applied research affiliations including the Vector Institute. Prior to Okare AI, she built and patented an oncology imaging platform at Altis Labs, taking it from research concept to clinical deployment.

Okare AI is the product of that same methodology — rigorous clinical grounding, peer-reviewed evidence, and a bias toward working software over presentation decks.

Healthcare AIVector InstituteNYUOncology imagingResearch → product
Clinical & industry advisors

Guided by people who've done this before.

Prof. Michael Glogauer

  • University of Toronto
  • Head of Dental Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital
  • Co-founder, Ostia Sciences

Dr. John Tran

  • VP, Alberta Dental Association
  • General Practice Owner

Kimberly Jones

  • Healthcare operations & clinical implementation
  • 30+ years U.S./Canada

Lexi Kaplin

  • CPO, RevenueSignals
  • Co-founder, ConversationHEALTH
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