As the saying goes, "people who love to laugh are not bad luck." However, many people's teeth are not perfect in life, because they are defective and dare not show when they smile. According to the data, 70% of people in China have irregular teeth and need to be corrected. With the improvement of modern aesthetics, people pay more and more attention to oral health and beauty, so many orthodontic products, especially braces, have been produced.
In the early years, braces were all made of steel, which was painful and inconvenient. Now a new type of braces is sweeping across China, and that is invisible braces. Its technology is very advanced, the pain is small, the correction time is short, and the appearance is not affected. The inventor and creator of this technology is Li Huamin, CEO of Time Angel Group.
smiling angel
Li Huamin was born in a doctor's family, and his father was a famous dentist. He started a business in his early years and opened a stomatological hospital. Li Huamin lived in the hospital with his father since childhood. He has seen many patients, large and small, and knows all kinds of dental problems like the back of his hand. What impressed her most was the orthodontic patients, because the technology was not developed at that time, and many patients who needed orthodontics wore steel braces. Steel braces are a technique that a metal plate is first attached to the surface of teeth, and then the metal buckle is connected with a metal wire, and the teeth are slowly combined into one by the pressure of the metal wire.
This correction is both painful and inconvenient. Every time this correction is made, patients still need to eat liquid food for several days in a row, and frequent review is very troublesome. And the correction period is ugly. At that time, Li Huamin thought to himself: If only I could invent a beautiful and convenient braces when I grow up.
However, when he grew up, Li Huamin did not inherit his father's mantle, but became a manager. But she didn't jump out of the oral circle and kept paying attention to oral information. In 2003, at a friend's party, Li Huamin accidentally learned that Tsinghua University and Capital Medical University were studying a kind of invisible braces, but they could not continue their research because of the financial break.
This incident caused a stir in Li Huamin's heart. She remembered her childhood dream and made up her mind. After returning home, she went to talk to her father about it in detail and wanted to continue to develop with him. His father readily agreed. Later, Li Huamin and his father contacted a professor in Tsinghua University, jointly invested in this technology and founded the Angel of the Times.
Encounter setbacks
In the early days of Angel of the Times, Li Huamin encountered many difficulties, because this technology was still in the research stage, and there was no return in the short term. In addition, this new dental industry needs new sources of materials and the design and production of finished products, and the funds invested by Li Huamin will soon run out.
In order to persist, she and her father borrowed all the relatives and friends around them, but the money they borrowed was a drop in the bucket and could not be supported at all. For months, I couldn't even get paid. In those months, Li Huamin couldn't sleep almost every day, and her hair fell off a lot. In order to save this dying angel of the times, Li Huamin decided to raise funds and set his sights on Oberlin Capital.
Aobo Capital is an investment company focusing on biomedicine. When Li Huamin first found the person in charge and blurted out his own project, he was rejected by the person in charge, because the project was still in its infancy at that time, and Aobo Capital could not estimate when it would see the return. Li Huamin refused to find someone again and again, and finally God rewarded him. With Li Huamin's efforts, Aobo Capital decided to invest 6 million dollars! When he got the financing, Li Huamin couldn't restrain his inner excitement and burst into tears.
After that, Li Huamin and his team went deep into technology development. Two years later, they broke through the difficulties in invisible braces. The angel of the times finally ushered in the dawn, and made great breakthroughs in materials science, mechanics, computer science, stomatology and so on!
After more than ten years of development, Time Angel has become the first company in the world with a variety of invisible orthodontic products, with more than 80 invention patents in technical research and application, and the largest and most comprehensive dental database in the world! More and more people use her products for orthodontics, and Li Huamin finally realized her childhood dream.
Overall clinical design
Li Huamin is a management background, and she has also made detailed plans for the future of the angel of the times. In order to give her employees a better development, Li Huamin also creatively put forward a strategy. From the perspective of the times, a person can be divided into two parts, and clinicians and design doctors can be integrated. This has great benefits. When doctors become designers, they will implant customers' needs and ideas in the process of product development and design. This is also one of the reasons why the angel of the times is sought after by customers.
In addition, doctors, as designers, are exposed to more abnormal teaching plans, and they can have a bigger platform to study, which is also very good for personal development.
Invisible braces is becoming more and more popular, and its users have developed from young people at the beginning to the elderly, middle-aged people and young people. Everyone has seen the advantages of this technology. Compared with the traditional steel braces, invisible braces has brought consumers a more comfortable and safer experience, and does not need frequent follow-up, which greatly saves patients' time. Even if you wear this braces, it doesn't need to hide, it can laugh happily.
Many corrected patients said that they had never worn such comfortable braces, and the correction effect was even better than other methods! Now, many people in China can laugh with confidence!
In this way, Li Huamin's team has grown bigger and bigger, from a dozen people at the beginning to thousands now, and many doctors working in it have become the best in stomatology. With a keen eye and delicate mind, Li Huamin has more and more successfully shaped the angel of the times. Later, she also negotiated cooperation with the General Administration of Sports. She said: "The athletes represent the country. I hope they can have a bright smile without any burden when they win the prize. " In just over a year, the angel of the times came to the athletes. After revision, many athletes showed China's grace on the field.
Once Li Huamin's deeds were reported by the media, everyone got to know this gentle and kind woman. Ma Yun's Lakeside University paid great attention to her, gave her good praise, and specially recruited her to become a member of 4 1 students. When someone asked Li Huamin about his mental journey in the past 20 years, Li Huamin said frankly, "Although I have difficulties in these 20 years, I never regret it, because this technology has made many people in China smile."