Company leader
Wardah Inam
Co-founder and CEO
Overjet
Wardah Inam is the co-founder and chief executive of Overjet, a dental AI company whose FDA-cleared software reads and measures dental X-rays for dentists and dental insurers.
Years at MIT
She came to MIT in 2010 for a master's degree and then a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science. "I didn't know I wanted to start a company when I came to MIT", she said. Through entrepreneurship classes at the Sloan School of Management she started several ventures with classmates. Her PhD research covered autonomous microgrids for places without reliable electricity, and she co-founded uLink Technologies, a startup working on power grid systems.
As a postdoctoral fellow in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, she worked with researchers who used machine learning on wireless signals to build sensors that could track movement, detect falls and monitor breathing. She then led product work at Q bio, a startup working on biomedical imaging.
A Second Opinion on Her Own Teeth
The idea for Overjet came from her own care. After changing dentists in 2018 she received a new treatment plan that differed from the old one, and when she showed her X-rays to other dentists she got still more versions. She began reading dental textbooks, watching videos and interviewing dentists, and soon left Q bio to work on the problem.
"I felt technology could play a big role in not only enhancing the diagnosis but also to communicate with the patients more effectively so they understand and don't have to go through the confusing process I did of wondering who's right," she said. The same week she left her job, she entered MIT's Hacking Medicine competition, where she began building the team. She co-founded Overjet with Alexander Jelicich, another MIT graduate.
Building Overjet
Overjet first sold to dental insurers, helping them review claims against the X-rays, before moving into dental offices. Its software marks decay and measures bone loss in millimeters as each X-ray loads, so the dentist can show the patient the change since the last visit. "Dentistry was more art than science, and I wanted to bring technology and AI to help dentists make objective decisions," she said.
Under her leadership the company has added imaging software, ambient voice charting and an AI insurance coordinator, and in December 2025 it received its 10th FDA clearance, for 3D cone beam scans.