Why this exists
Dental insurance sends a practice three bills after the patient leaves: the write-off taken before a claim is touched, the work of eligibility, attachments, denials, and resubmission, and the wait while payment becomes an uncertain future event. Employers pay premiums for that machinery, and employees inherit deductibles, exclusions, and an annual maximum that has barely moved in decades.
Meanwhile dentistry stays cut off from the rest of health. The people who cost a health plan the most are often the ones who avoid the doctor—and they still show up when a tooth hurts. That visit should be a front door, not a dead end.
What we build
Employers establish annual dental dollars for eligible employees through predictable monthly funding and a bounded reserve.
Toothsome Pay combines the funded wallet, an HSA, and a personal card into one transaction. No claim. No adjudication.
Oral findings meet medical risk, the right funded intervention is surfaced, and outcomes are measured for employers, health systems, and ACOs.
Founder
As a hospital-based oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Dr. Samy treats the most severe form of dental disease—head and neck space infections that end in ICU admissions and operating-room intervention. Almost every one began as a treatable tooth problem the system failed to fund early.
Toothsome is his answer: fund the care directly, keep the treatment conversation in the operatory, and connect oral findings to whole-person health—before the infection, not after.
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Toothsome works with employers, dental practices, and benefits advisors to put funded dental care in place for their teams and patients. Tell us which seat you're in—we'll set up the right conversation.