Cryptocurrency Release Dentacoin Now Accepted in New Practices

One of the odd new trends in cryptocurrency is the creation of a coin geared toward a particular industry; TravelCoin, for example, focuses its efforts on the travel industry, while ArtByte backs up the independent artist. Dentacoin is one such coin as well, geared as you might well have guessed to the dental practitioner. It’s even picked up a couple new practices recently in the Netherlands, as it announced in a release sent our way.

The two dental practices in question, Tridental Mouthware and Clinident, both offer some of the most cutting-edge dental operations around. Zoetermeer’s Clinident, for example, specializes in dental implants and works with one of the biggest implant makers around, Bredent, who also happens to be a Dentacoin user. Clinident can readily replace teeth from single units to completely denuded jaws.

Tridental Mouthware, meanwhile, is more of a general dental practice, offering implant services, periodontic operations, endodontics, and even pediatric dentistry. It boasts its own in-house dental lab, which means that it can produce prosthetics and the like more rapidly, less expensively, and more immediately customizable to the case at hand.

The two Dutch practices join a small but growing network—21 practices at last report, including the newcomers—worldwide, with representatives in the United States, Australia, and nations scattered throughout Asia and Europe.

This otherwise nonsensical idea would make particular sense if Dentacoin were a coin that could be mined right now; the notion that people could turn their extra computer processing cycles to creating a coin that could be directly applied to dental care might be a real step forward in getting dental care in everyone’s hands. Since the coin has a fixed amount, it can’t actually be mined.

Further, Dentacoin isn’t going to make any big hits in the price of dental care; one Dentacoin is selling at $0.000498 as of this writing, which means that the $19 price of a checkup at Aspen Dental for Illinois and Tennessee residents without insurance would cost just under 40,000 Dentacoin.

While it’s an interesting plan, it’s not likely to be a big hit, connections to the dental industry aside. Dentacoin may well end up like one of the hundreds of other cryptocurrencies currently in the malaise of “no one wants it” out there already.