Developing custom 3D-printed bone grafts for dental implant surgery
Insufficient jawbone can prevent dental implant placement and require bone reconstruction first. Conventional grafting can involve specialist surgery, multiple operations and months of recovery, increasing costs and discomfort while delaying implant placement.
Kervalion is developing custom 3D-printed bone grafts from patient scans for dental implant surgery. Designed to fit each patient's bone defect, the grafts aim to combine bone reconstruction and implant placement in one operation.
What stands out about Kervalion
Raised €700,000 from private investors to support clinical development, recruitment and regulatory work.
Named an i-Lab 2026 laureate for personalised 3D-printed bone grafts designed for dental reconstruction.
Kervalion achieved promising bone regeneration and graft integration results in preclinical rat studies.
Co-founded by Habib Belaïd, whose Montpellier thesis studied 3D-printed bone-filling materials for orthopaedics and oncology.
Selected for HIIT 2026, the health innovation programme run by French Tech Grand Paris and Digital Medical Hub.
Incubated at BIC de Montpellier and based at the Cap Alpha business incubator in Clapiers.
Spun out from the University of Montpellier, CNRS, IRCM and IEM in 2025 following SATT AxLR technology maturation.
Co-founded by Gilles Devillers, who previously co-founded Neolys Diagnostics to personalise radiotherapy treatment.
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