{"id":67480,"title":"🦷 Rinse - Building the One Medical for dental","tagline":"We make your in-office dental care easy, awesome, and way more effective","body":"**TL;DR:** Rinse marries tech and hospitality to make routine mouth care easy, awesome, and way more effective. We’re just a few days away from opening our first location at 1763 Union St. San Francisco ([map](https://goo.gl/maps/JcPoM1wDaGX6FAma8)). You can now book instantly [online](https://rinse.page.link/aL7u) or in the Rinse [iOS app](https://rinse.page.link/vyJw)!\n\nHello 👋 I’m [Casey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseyharlin/), the founder of [Rinse](https://rinse.page.link/aL7u). I’m an engineer turned healthcare exec that spent 8 years leading product at Delta Dental, the world’s largest Dental insurance company.\n\n### **The problem… Going to the dentist sucks 😩**\n\nYour typical dental office offers inconvenient hours, antiquated tech, and a vibe straight out of the 90s. Likewise, with [little to no standard of care in dentistry](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/), we can only hope we’ve found an honest dentist who will focus on preventing, even reversing disease, not succumb to the perverse incentives of an industry optimized for ‘drilling, filling, and billing’.\n\n**The result…** 2 in 3 adults simply do not go to the dentist. A cycle of which leads to systemic oral health issues known to impact your overall health, confidence, and ultimately lead to costly (and painful) procedures we’d all rather avoid.\n\n### **Rinse makes it easy to get great mouth care 🙌**\n\nWe’re a technology enabled dental studio designed to make your routine mouth care easy, awesome, and way more effective!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=67480\u0026key=user_uploads/691376/e44970f8-c696-4c87-829a-0783691aec6d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=67480\u0026key=user_uploads/691376/51e5395c-3bb9-47ab-b0ad-934ef2e0f95b)\n\n### **Our Ask 🙏**\n\n1. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area…**Book a visit**\n2. **Share this post!** Please help spread the word, especially with those you might know in the San Francisco Bay Area. \n\n_\\*\\* quick blurb to copy \u0026 paste_: A former Delta Dental exec recently launched the One Medical for dental in San Francisco. [Check them out](https://rinse.page.link/aL7u) and contact [founders@rinse.dental](mailto:founders@rinse.dental) for more! ","slug":"HYO-rinse-building-the-one-medical-for-dental","created_at":"2022-11-22T20:19:25.910Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:21:59.277Z","total_vote_count":28,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HYO-rinse-building-the-one-medical-for-dental","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":24199,"name":"Rinse","slug":"rinse","url":"http://www.rinse.dental","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/97480b5327f1fecbd87a4e75f95bab9e8c810feb.png","batch":"Summer 2021","industry":"Healthcare","tags":["Consumer Health Services","Digital Health","Telemedicine","Primary Care"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/24199"}}