FDA-cleared profile

CEPHX- Cephalometric Analysis Software

Orca Dental AI LTD

Cephalometric image analysis, simulation, visual treatment objective support, and consultation for dental and orthodontic professionals treating patients aged 14 years and older.

Evidence status: each field states its source quality, applicability, and review date. Research pending, information not established, and vendor documentation pending remain distinct outcomes.

Clinical details

What this tool is for

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Exact purpose
Cephalometric image analysis, simulation, visual treatment objective support, and consultation for dental and orthodontic professionals treating patients aged 14 years and older.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08
Intended users
Dentists, orthodontists, and other qualified dental professionals.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Care setting and population
Dental and orthodontic imaging and treatment-planning workflows.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Workflow role
Cephalometric image analysis, simulation, visual treatment-objective support, and consultation.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Required input
Eligible cephalometric radiographs and related dental-imaging data for patients aged 14 years and older.
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Output and human action
Cephalometric landmarks, measurements, analyses, simulations, and visual treatment-objective information for professional review.
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Limitations
Use is limited to the labeled age and dental or orthodontic workflow; the qualified professional remains responsible for diagnosis and treatment decisions.
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Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

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FDA submission
K231396
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
X-ray/Radiography
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Anatomy
Head/Neck
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Clearance type
510(k)
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Decision date
2024-01-31
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FDA status
FDA-cleared
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Implementation

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Integration
The exact FDA summary establishes radiological image-processing software; current image-transfer, practice-management, and hosting interfaces require vendor confirmation.
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Deployment and data flow
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
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The reviewed sources do not establish the current exact-release hosting topology, data flow, region, tenancy, or disaster-recovery configuration.

Security and privacy
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
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Exact-release security controls, data retention, hosting boundaries, and scoped assurance documentation require vendor confirmation.

Training and support
Vendor documentation pending
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Current training prerequisites, competency checks, and support commitments for the exact configuration require vendor confirmation.

Monitoring and change control
Vendor documentation pending
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Current drift, quality, uptime, alert, escalation, and incident-response commitments for the exact configuration require vendor confirmation.

Current product-family workflow context

CephX describes its current dental-imaging family as automated cephalometric analysis and treatment-planning support.

product family · checked 2026-09-08

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Evidence

Performance evidence

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Evidence summary
Research pending
  • Needs research
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No exact-version evidence summary has been curated yet.

Reported sensitivity
Research pending
  • Needs research
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This field has not been curated yet.

Reported specificity
Research pending
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This field has not been curated yet.

No contextualized exact-version metric has completed evidence review. Regulatory-document values, when available, are shown above with their limitations.

Costs and setup

Budget and ongoing governance

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Pricing and total cost
Vendor documentation pending
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No public price or quote for the exact K231396 configuration was established in this review.

Reimbursement and coding
Not established in reviewed sources
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No exact-product payer policy, coding instruction, or payment determination was established; eligibility must be evaluated by payer, site of service, and use case.

Safety and lifecycle

Postmarket record

Recall and adverse-event records are shown only after product matching. Adverse-event reports do not establish incidence or causality.

Postmarket safety review
The exact-identifier FDA recall query returned no native recall record for K231396. This limited result does not establish absence of recalls or other safety information and does not cover later versions, family records, MAUDE reports, corrections, or field notices.
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Buyer worksheet

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Open evaluation checklist

Research record

What has been checked

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Exact FDA record reviewedStatus
2026-09-08Last searched
16Fields reviewed
9Source classes checked
0Awaiting review PubMed leads
0Awaiting review trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

Recovered from the prior exact-submission extraction and normalized under the current provenance rules. Exact FDA scope controls clinical claims. ACR and official vendor material provide bounded catalog or product-family context. Candidate literature metadata remains a discovery queue until full-text identity, endpoint, population, and version review is completed. Automated exact-name discovery found 0 PubMed and 0 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records. Candidates require human product and version matching; zero candidates is not evidence that no studies exist. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 0 postmarket candidate records; 0 have been reviewed (0 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.

Candidate leads remain unpublished until a human confirms the exact product and tested version.

Source classes: fda ai list, fda decision summary, vendor product page, fda device recall, literature index, trial registry, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources & history

How this profile was documented

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Source ledger

  1. FDA K231396: CEPHX- Cephalometric Analysis Software

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2024-01-31 - Accessed 2026-09-08

    Scope: identity, clinicalUse, modality, anatomy, workflow, evidence, implementation

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-08-31

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. PubMed biomedical literature index

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery

  4. ClinicalTrials.gov study registry

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery, studyStatus

  5. openFDA Device Recall API

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-02

    Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching

  6. CephX dental-imaging family

    CephX - Accessed 2026-09-04

    Scope: productFamilyContext, workflowRole, implementationCapabilities

  7. openFDA exact recall query for K231396

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-08

    Scope: postmarketSafety

Research history

  1. K231396 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    fda record reviewed

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