Lura Health is all smiles.
What’s happening: The intraoral biometric sensor maker landed investment from Japanese dental tech firm SCO Group to expand clinical use cases.
Spit-take. Lura’s microsensors attach to dental appliances or bond directly to teeth, continuously tracking pH and metabolites from saliva, to deliver real-time health alerts.
Aiming to replace lab-based diagnostics, its noninvasive form factor enables user-friendly preventative monitoring.
Mouthguard. Targeting FDA clearance by 2027, it’s developing applications for sports performance, eldercare, and wellness. Leveraging SCO Group’s clinical infrastructure, it’ll pursue public health initiatives in oral health, diabetes, and drug monitoring across Asia, starting in Japan.
Invisible hand. Consumers want more insights and less screentime. As lab-on-a-chip technology advances, device makers are pushing continuous monitoring beyond glucose, crafting sensors decoding blood, sweat, and saliva.
From multi-molecule CGMs by Sava and Biolinq to hormone-sensing earrings from Incora and hydration patches by Nix and Epicore, wearables are shrinking while use cases expand.
Looking ahead: Enabling intervention without obsession, forgettable wearables could propel preventative well-being. With WHOOP’s FDA feud as foresight, Lura will approach wellness’s next frontier with clinical co-sign.
