Innovation: Nevada startup S-Ray develops a radiation-free alternative to the dental X-ray

Form and function

ClearView Scan, a combo of ultrasound hardware and 3D-imaging software, is meant to take the place of dental X-rays. It emits no harmful radiation and, its inventors say, makes more precise measurements than X-rays do.

Innovator Steve Baird Age 60 Chief executive officer of S-Ray, a Reno, Nev.-based startup with four full-time employees

Next Steps

“This is the kind of disruptive technology that may really change the dental world,” says Joerd van der Meer, a dentist and professor at the University of Groningen Medical Centre in the Netherlands. Baird says S-Ray will release ClearView Scan by next year, pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, and that he’s also working on a countertop product that can scan dental impressions.