aid: acceledent
name: AcceleDent
description: >-
  AcceleDent was the flagship product of OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc., a privately held
  medical-device company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Bellaire, Texas, outside
  Houston. AcceleDent is an FDA-cleared Class II device built around the company's patented
  SoftPulse Technology: a hands-free mouthpiece and activator that a patient bit down on for
  about twenty minutes a day, delivering gentle micropulses intended to speed bone remodeling
  during orthodontic treatment and reduce the discomfort of braces and clear aligners. The
  line ran through three generations — the original AcceleDent, AcceleDent Aura in 2013, and
  AcceleDent Optima, cleared by the FDA in 2017 — sold to orthodontists and dentists rather
  than direct to consumers, with an e-commerce ordering site at shop.acceledent.com for
  practices. The company raised roughly $63.1M across sixteen rounds, the last a Series C in
  January 2017, and a later debt-and-equity financing led by S3 Ventures. It was a physical
  medical-device business, not a software business: OrthoAccel never operated a developer
  program, never published an API, SDK, webhook surface or machine-readable specification of
  any kind, and shipped no client libraries to any package registry. OrthoAccel is now
  reported defunct — orthoaccel.com no longer resolves, and acceledent.com was re-registered
  on 2022-08-30 and today sits on Afternic name servers as a GoDaddy aftermarket "for sale"
  listing whose parking system answers HTTP 200 with an identical 114-byte HTML stub on every
  path, including every /.well-known/ and spec path. This profile is retained as a historical
  record; there is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/acceledent/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-harvest-source-url: https://forgeglobal.com/acceledent_stock/
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2007'
x-domain-status: reassigned
x-domain-note: >-
  acceledent.com was re-registered on 2022-08-30 (GoDaddy.com, LLC; name servers
  ns1/ns2.afternic.com) after OrthoAccel wound down, and now serves a GoDaddy aftermarket
  sales lander. It answers HTTP 200 with the SAME 114-byte HTML redirect stub on EVERY path
  — including /openapi.json and every /.well-known/* path — and /lander itself returns 403
  from an Akamai edge naming forsale.godaddy.com/forsale/acceledent.com as the target. Those
  200s are not documents. DNS is a wildcard, so api./docs./developer./shop. all resolve, but
  no TLS certificate covers them. See well-known/acceledent-well-known.yml. This host is NOT
  controlled by AcceleDent and is deliberately not wired as a Website pointer (roadmap#56).
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-06'
modified: '2026-09-06'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Medical Device
- Dental
- Orthodontics
- Healthcare
- Hardware
- Consumer Health
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-artifacts-unpointered:
- file: well-known/acceledent-well-known.yml
  type: WellKnown
  emitted: false
  reason: >-
    Every probed /.well-known/ path returned the parking system's 114-byte HTML stub, not a
    document. Per the enrichment contract a WellKnown pointer asserts the PROVIDER serves that
    surface, so the probe record is kept and NO pointer is emitted. Do not add one in a later
    round without a 200 carrying a real document.
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: >-
    OrthoAccel Technologies built AcceleDent as a physical FDA-cleared Class II orthodontic
    device and never ran a developer program; the company is now defunct, orthoaccel.com no
    longer resolves at all, and acceledent.com was re-registered in August 2022 as a GoDaddy
    aftermarket "for sale" listing whose parking system returns the same 114-byte HTML stub
    with HTTP 200 for every path probed, including /openapi.json and every /.well-known/ path.
  evidence:
  - url: https://acceledent.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://acceledent.com/lander
    status: 403
  - url: https://acceledent.com/openapi.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://acceledent.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/orthoaccel
    status: 404
  - url: https://forgeglobal.com/acceledent_stock/
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-09-06'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-06'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v3