In a recent founder interview, our CEO Dr. Alfred Griffin opened up about the problem LightForce was built to solve. Not a technology gap, but a design flaw hiding in plain sight. He walks through what it means to build a company from inside the clinical system, how LightForce turned its manufacturing operations into a competitive moat, and why treating adoption friction as a design problem rather than a sales problem has been central to how the company grows. With nearly 200,000 patients treated and 51 of 66 North American orthodontic residency programs actively teaching the technology, the category is thriving. A candid and substantive conversation worth reading in full.
