Building surgical software
while still in
school.

Foreign-trained dentist. Oral surgery. Harvard Management Program. US dental school. The software comes from every gap between them.

Mission

Surgeons make decisions on anatomy they can only partially see. That is the problem.

Every product here exists because I was in a clinical environment and wished the information was clearer, faster, or more spatial. The goal is to put patient-specific 3D anatomy in the room before the procedure begins — on hardware that already exists, running pipelines that require no internet and no external workstation.

BDS Dentistry — foreign-trained
OMS Oral and maxillofacial surgery
2026 MSM — Harvard University  completing
Now Dental school, US program

Flagship · Apple Vision Pro

Stargazer

A surgical planning and navigation platform for Apple Vision Pro. Renders patient CBCT data as full 3D anatomy in the room — before the first incision, without a cloud connection or external workstation.

Apple Vision Pro  ·  visionOS 26  ·  DICOM native  ·  fully on-device
Apple Vision Pro
Regulatory: FDA Class II 510(k) in preparation  ·  IEC 62304 Safety Class B
Data format: DICOM / CBCT  ·  on-device processing, no upload required
Surgical Navigation
Real-time spatial guidance with patient anatomy overlaid in the surgeon's field of view. Entry angles, depth, and proximity to critical structures tracked continuously throughout the procedure.
Virtual Surgical Guides
Digital counterpart to physical printed guides. Plan guide position and angulation in 3D before fabrication. Simulate sleeve placement and verify clearances spatially before the patient is seated.
Endodontic Navigation
Canal tracking and access cavity guidance for root canal procedures. Working length and angulation visualized in 3D relative to the patient's specific root anatomy and surrounding structures.
Instrument Tracking
Tracks handpiece and instrument position in 3D space relative to the patient's loaded anatomy using Vision Pro's spatial sensors and depth cameras. Proximity alerts for critical anatomical boundaries.
CBCT / DICOM Loading
Loads raw DICOM data natively on Apple Vision Pro — no cloud upload, no third-party conversion, no external workstation. Full-resolution volume processing runs entirely on-device in seconds.
Implant Planning
3D implant positioning with a library of 228 implant systems across major vendors. Visual verification of angulation, depth, and emergence profile against the patient's bone volume before any drilling.

Supporting products

Segmentation Engine · macOS

StarSeg

Full anatomy segmentation from CBCT in under 15 seconds. On-device, no internet, no GPU. 77 dental and 30 body structures using a 2M-parameter INT8 model distilled from MedNeXt via teacher-student training.

5–15 sec CPU-only · Apple Silicon · no cloud
Patient Safety · iOS / visionOS

CranioFaceID

Biometric patient identity verification using CBCT facial surface registration. Matches the patient's live facial geometry to their scan on file. Returns MATCH, UNCERTAIN, or NO-MATCH before imaging begins.

131 automated tests · IEC 62304 Class B
Research · macOS

CBCT-MAR

Metal artifact removal for implant cases. Built on 14 real patient DICOM datasets from a Carestream CS 8100 3D scanner. Six approaches failed. Approach 7 — influence-map artifact estimation — is in progress.

14 patient datasets · Metal Shading Language GPU pipeline

Funding model

HopTanks

HopTanks funds the research.

Medical software development is slow by design — FDA clearance, IEC 62304 compliance, and clinical validation do not compress. HopTanks is a physics-based mobile arcade game set in 2125, where spring-loaded tanks battle across a cheerful post-apocalyptic wasteland. Built for iOS, designed to generate the revenue that keeps Stargazer moving. Every dollar goes back into the surgical platform.

HONESTY 94%

Contact

Get in touch.

adel@adelalsakkal.com
Adel Al-Sakkal LLC · Florida, USA · adelalsakkal.com
Vision Pro image: BobSmith810 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0