Shanghai and BeijingApril 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On April 23, 2026, the “Journey Together, Guarding Smiles” Taikang Dental Anniversary Celebration was grandly held in Shanghai. Chen Honghua, member of the Management Committee of Taikang Insurance Group and CEO of Taikang Dental; Yao Junfeng, founder, Chairman, and CEO of Smartee Dental; Zhou Pan, Assistant President of Taikang Dental and General Manager of the Shanghai Business Division; Professor Xu Xin and Professor Shen Gang, Chief Experts of Taikang Dental; Jiang Zhenglin, CIO; Cheng Yuhong, General Manager of the Market and Product Department; Song Jiajia, General Manager of the Medical Operations Department; and representatives from over 20 mainstream media outlets attended the event, celebrating the joy of growth and embarking on a new chapter of development.
Chen Honghua, member of the Management Committee of Taikang Insurance Group and CEO of Taikang Dental
The celebration reviewed Taikang Dental’s deep-rooted journey, clarified its future development direction, and highlighted its unwavering commitment and responsibility to safeguard the oral health of the Chinese people throughout their life cycles, grounded in academics, service, and technology.
Anchoring the Big Health Ecosystem, Fulfilling the Mission of Oral Health Protection
At the start of the celebration, Chen Honghua, member of the Management Committee of Taikang Insurance Group and CEO of Taikang Dental, delivered a speech. He stated that, leveraging Taikang’s big health ecosystem, Taikang Dental has embarked on an eight-year exploration of an innovative “dental-insurance integration” business model, making high-quality services accessible. Collaborating with various Taikang branches, it has successively launched differentiated innovative products such as “Taikang Dental Implant Worry-Free Insurance” and “Good Teeth for Life” long-term dental insurance, covering oral health needs across all ages and scenarios. With insurance payment as a link, it has built a full-lifecycle oral health management system covering prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. In its development, Taikang Dental has made discipline construction a core strategy, led by industry-leading experts like Xu Xin, Zhou Lei, and Shen Gang, establishing a standardized discipline system across multiple fields, supplemented by talent cultivation to solidify its foundation, steadily advancing national store layouts and medical quality improvements. Over eight years, it has achieved its own transformation, integrating insurance’s long-termism with medical care to forge a new model.
Honoring a Decade of Deep Cultivation, Passing on the Spirit of Craftsmanship
This year marks a significant period for Taikang Dental in talent recruitment and discipline development, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of Professor Shen Gang joining Taikang Dental. At the event, special tribute was paid to Professor Shen Gang, an industry leader and Chief Expert at Taikang Dental Group, recognizing his outstanding contributions to Taikang Dental’s development and industry progress over the past decade. With over 30 years of deep cultivation in orthodontics, Professor Shen Gang has led his team to overcome numerous technical challenges, developing core achievements like the SGTB orthopedic technology and refining Chinese solutions for severe malocclusion treatment. In research and clinical innovation, he has secured 12 national invention patents and 18 utility model patents, published over 50 SCI papers in international dental journals, and edited multiple orthodontic textbooks and monographs. His original achievements, including the classification of protrusion, concavity, and deviation deformities, jaw position reconstruction, and the GS technology system, have not only advanced China’s diagnostic and treatment system for complex malocclusions but also garnered broader international attention for the “Chinese characteristic orthodontic system,” laying a solid foundation for Taikang Dental’s orthodontic discipline development and injecting strong momentum into industry progress.
Yao Junfeng, founder, Chairman, and CEO of Smartee Dental (left), presents a tribute to Professor Shen Gang (center)
A decade of dedication, a master’s craftsmanship. Professor Shen Gang has led by example, meticulously nurturing 36 outstanding young orthodontists, including Xu Ziqing, Jiang Jianyu, and Wang Te, through clinical teaching and academic guidance, building a vibrant and professionally skilled orthodontic team for Taikang Dental. Over ten years, he has not only imparted exquisite techniques to young doctors but also conveyed the original mission of a physician’s benevolence, passing on rigorous academic spirit and warm clinical wisdom, making him a steadfast sower and guide in Taikang Dental’s talent-rich soil. With students flourishing and the field thriving, this continuous professional inheritance serves as a vivid testament to Taikang Dental’s promising future.
Student representative Dr. Xu Ziqing (left) presents a tribute to Professor Shen Gang
At the Shanghai Taikang Bybo Dental General Hospital, a special ten-year orthodontic exhibition area is set up, focusing on Professor Shen Gang’s orthodontic team, a decade of development milestones, patent certificate displays, and clinical cases. It panoramically presents Professor Shen Gang’s decade-long journey at Taikang Dental, technological innovation achievements, and talent cultivation results, allowing on-site guests and colleagues to intuitively experience the development of Chinese orthodontic technology and Taikang Dental’s solid steps in discipline construction. It also pays tribute to Professor Shen Gang’s dedicated perseverance and selfless contribution, passing on his rigorous, pragmatic, and excellence-driven medical spirit.
Release of the Peace of Mind Orthodontics White Paper, Upgrade of “Good Teeth for Life”
At the celebration, the “Taikang Dental Peace of Mind Orthodontics White Paper” was officially released, and the “Good Teeth for Life” dental insurance product underwent a strategic upgrade simultaneously.
As a core achievement of this release, the “Taikang Dental Peace of Mind Orthodontics White Paper” systematically compiles Professor Shen Gang’s original theories and clinical practices over his decade at Taikang Dental, showcasing breakthrough results from his orthodontic team in areas like the classification of protrusion, concavity, and deviation deformities, jaw position reconstruction, and the GS technology system. Addressing common patient concerns in the current orthodontic market—such as “unassured outcomes, non-transparent processes, and inconsistent standards”—the white paper, supported by extensive clinical data and classic cases, proposes standardized orthodontic diagnostic and treatment standards covering the entire process from screening, diagnosis, and treatment to follow-up. It aims to drive the industry from experience-driven to standard-led, truly achieving “peace of mind orthodontics and confident consultations.” The release of this white paper is not only a systematic summary of Professor Shen Gang’s decade of dedicated work but also an important practice by Taikang Dental to lead the industry with academics and protect patients with standards.
Simultaneously, the “Good Teeth for Life” dental insurance product has undergone a strategic upgrade, extending oral health management services from individuals to family members. The upgraded product further strengthens Taikang Dental’s core “insurance + medical” service loop, guiding users from “passive treatment” to “active prevention” through insurance payment mechanisms. It incorporates preventive items like regular check-ups, early interventions, and long-term maintenance into coverage, addressing oral health needs across all ages and life cycles. This move enables more families to access long-term, systematic, and high-quality oral health management services at predictable costs, fully reflecting Taikang Dental’s value philosophy of “prevention first, health first.”
Strategic Layout, Solidifying the Foundation for Development
Professor Xu Xin, Chief Expert of Taikang Dental
Strengthening medical quality is rooted in academics and hinges on talent. At the celebration, Professor Xu Xin, Chief Expert of Taikang Dental, revealed that the company will establish an Academic Steering Committee, gathering top industry experts to focus on discipline construction, talent cultivation, and diagnostic and treatment standards. This aims to simultaneously elevate Taikang Dental’s academic level and treatment standards, addressing the shortcoming of “no disciplines” in private dentistry, and creating a distinctive oral medical brand with quality comparable to public hospitals.
Addressing the oral health needs of different populations, Taikang Dental simultaneously outlined three key development directions, highlighting its commitment to all-scenario protection: In the construction of geriatric-specific dentistry, Taikang Dental will build a comprehensive “geriatric-specific service system,” leveraging Taikang’s elderly care ecosystem resources to focus on the oral health pain points of seniors, providing personalized, convenient, and humanized dental diagnosis, treatment, and care services to safeguard their well-being; In the implementation of smart medical scenarios, Jiang Zhenglin, CIO of Taikang Dental, stated that the company will continue to promote “technology empowering the entire diagnostic and treatment process,” deepening the application of AI in pre-consultation, intra-diagnosis assistance, and post-treatment follow-up, paired with digital diagnostic equipment to enhance treatment efficiency and customer experience, achieving “technology making healthcare warmer”; In the construction of industry transparency, a media supervisor appointment ceremony was held on-site, with Zhou Pan and media representatives jointly participating. By establishing a “media supervisor mechanism,” Taikang Dental actively accepts social supervision, standardizes diagnostic and treatment behaviors, builds a transparent and trustworthy medical environment, conveys positive industry energy, and practices the core value of “integrity in healthcare.”
This anniversary celebration serves both as a concentrated showcase of Taikang Dental’s past development achievements and a new starting point for its journey ahead. In the future, Taikang Dental will seize this opportunity, remember its original intention, bravely shoulder its mission, and, guided by academics, centered on service, supported by technology, and grounded in responsibility, continue to deepen the “dental-insurance integration” model, improve full-lifecycle oral health management services, cultivate professional medical talent teams, promote the universalization, standardization, and intelligent development of oral medical services, guard every smile with craftsmanship, set industry benchmarks with professionalism, and contribute greater strength to the oral health cause of the Chinese people.