Nobu Dental
Nobu Shika / Hanarabi Shika is a private dental clinic in Kobe, Japan, providing general, orthodontic, implant and prosthetic dentistry. Since July 2026 it has offered an 'Emergency Denture' service printed in-house on a Shining 3D AccuFab-F1 DLP printer, with delivery in as little as one week.
- CEO / Founder
- Nobuyuki Maruhashi (丸橋 伸行)
- Team Size
- 11-50
- Stage
- Active
Technology & Products
Key Products
Emergency Denture: self-pay 3D-printed denture service with time-based pricing. Single arch costs JPY 330,000 (1 month), JPY 440,000 (2 weeks) or JPY 550,000 (1 week); upper and lower arches cost JPY 660,000-1,100,000. Also offers One-Day Denture, general dentistry, periodontal and root canal treatment, adult and pediatric orthodontics (wire and aligner), implants, ceramic/aesthetic restorations, whitening and oral surgery.
Technological Advantage
Closed-loop chairside digital pipeline: face scanner, digital occlusion simulation and an in-house Shining 3D AccuFab-F1 DLP printer, run by three in-house dental technicians.
Differentiation
Value Proposition
Shortens the toothless period after extraction from about 3 months to as little as 1 week. The clinic merges intraoral model data with face-scan data to simulate the bite, which removes the wax try-in step, and designs, prints and finishes dentures in-house without an external lab.
How They Differentiate
Sells speed: premium self-pay pricing tied to delivery time, with design, printing and finishing done in-house rather than by an external lab.
Market & Competition
Target Customers
Patients who suddenly lose teeth or want to minimize the toothless period before a definitive denture; more broadly, adult and pediatric dental patients in Kobe's Suma area, about 46% of whom are aged 61 or older.
Industry Verticals
Dental; Healthcare
Competitors
Japanese dental clinics adopting insurance-covered 3D-printed complete dentures (covered since December 2025); commercial dental labs producing digital dentures on Rapid Shape, Stratasys or SprintRay printers; clinics offering 3D-printed digital copy dentures
Growth & Milestones
Growth Metrics
Revenue of about JPY 240M (FY ending March 2025); 23 employees; 1,103 monthly patient visits; over 17,000 patients cumulative; 22 insured employees per gBizINFO.
Major Milestones
April 2006: clinic opened in Kobe; April 2013: incorporated as Medical Corporation Nobu Dental Clinic; July 2026: full launch of the 3D-printed Emergency Denture service using a Shining 3D AccuFab-F1.