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Formula A
Pre-operative carbohydrate loading
EVIDENCE-BASED PERIOPERATIVE & DENTAL RECOVERY NUTRITION
What if nutrition could become part of recovery?
Platino Healthcare is building an evidence-based, water-based nutrition system designed around the clinical realities of surgery — from pre-operative preparation to post-operative recovery and dental healing.
Procedure-specific
Right nutrition. Right time.
Evidence-led
Built on peer-reviewed science.
Clinically mapped
Mapped to the patient journey.
Water-based
Easy to consume & absorb.
Research Prototype. Not for commercial sale.
10 formulas17+ peer-reviewed clinical sources15 doctors reviewedPre-seed
Patients drink something during recovery.
Why shouldn’t it do something?
Hospital patients can spend days or weeks relying on water, liquids or improvised nutrition during clinically important recovery windows. Platino Healthcare asks whether the liquid patients already consume could be designed around the nutritional requirements of recovery.
01The Gap
The problem is documented. The scale of it isn’t public yet.
Hospital malnutrition in India and other LMICs is well-studied — and still unaddressed by any standardized product. Some of what we found, we’re keeping for the room.
60%
of geriatric surgical patients in India are malnourished pre-op
2.2x
longer hospital stays for malnourished vs. well-nourished patients
Ask Us
the real annual cost of hospital malnutrition in India — and how we sized it
Ask Us
the Asia-region economic burden, and what share is recoverable by year 3
“Current care is informal, undosed advice — no protocol behind it.”
Evidence-based. Procedure-specific. Water-based. Clinically mapped. Research prototype. Surgery & dental.
One clinical problem. Two very different patients.
General Surgery
Pre-op →Surgery →Early Recovery →Rehab
Dental & Maxillofacial
Procedure →Liquid Window →Soft Diet →Healing
02Platform
Ten formulas. Only six are named here.
Every formula is built against a specific point on the recovery timeline — not a one-size-fits-all shake.
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A category nobody built.
Dental & Maxillofacial Recovery Nutrition
Post-Extraction
Periodontal / Implant
Jaw-Wired / MMF
Orthognathic Surgery
Oral Cancer / HNC
Pediatric Recovery
Improvised Nutrition
VS
Clinically Mapped Nutrition
*The supplied competitive analysis identified zero dedicated dental-recovery ONS products globally.
03Evidence
Every formula starts with evidence.
17+ peer-reviewed clinical sources
ERASESPENKDOQICochrane43-RCT meta-analysis
We don’t start with a product. We start with a clinical question.
- Clinical Problem01
- Evidence02
- Nutritional Req.03
- Formulation04
- Lab Validation05
- Clinical Validation06
- Product07
The market exists.
The category doesn’t.
Most nutrition products are designed for general nutritional support.
Platino Healthcare is building nutrition around the clinical window of the procedure.
General
Standard ONS
Broad nutritional support for general wellness.
Specialized
General Recovery
Support for recovery and post-operative nutrition.
Specialized
Pre-op / Renal /
Immune
Immune
Indication-specific solutions for select clinical needs.
Procedure-specific
PLATINO
Clinically Mapped
Nutrition mapped to the clinical window of the procedure.
DENTAL +
MAXILLOFACIAL
MAXILLOFACIAL
An identified
white space
white space
- Extraction
- Implant
- Jaw Wiring (MMF)
- Orthognathic
- HNC
Nutrition designed around the procedure.
04Pricing — Target Economics
Priced far below imports. We won’t say by how much here.
Indicative pricing per 200ml, subject to manufacturing validation. Competitor-by-competitor comparisons live in the deck.
Formula
Target Price
Position
General surgery formulas
₹120–200 / 200ml
Meaningfully below current import-priced alternatives — deck has the exact multiple, formula by formula
Dental & maxillofacial formulas
₹40–170
Priced against improvised workarounds — there’s no real competitor product to compare against
One of our five general-surgery formulas prices 8–10x below its closest competitor. We’ll tell you which one, and why that’s sustainable rather than a red flag.
05Scalability
One number is real. The rest is behind the door.
No dedicated dental-recovery ONS product exists — India or globally, across any formula. Here’s how big that gap is.
55M+
eligible patients per year for Formula A — pre-op carb loading, general surgery, India only.
30M+
eligible patients per year for dental Formula A alone — and there’s currently zero dedicated competitor product serving any of them.
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Figures are order-of-magnitude estimates from published epidemiological modeling. Country-by-country regulatory sequencing (FDA, EMA, or local equivalents) is mapped in the deck, not published here.
Two clinical channels. One formulation platform.
Platino Healthcare
Hospitals
Surgeons / Clinical Dietitians
Patients
Platino Healthcare
Dental / OMFS Clinics
Dentists
Patients
✓ Shared R&D✓ Shared manufacturing✓ Different clinical protocols
06Founder
Built from the clinical problem outward.
Ajay Kumar Obulapuram
Founder, Platino Healthcare · Founder & CEO, drstudents.com
Final-year BDS
- —Founded drstudents.com (live medical education marketplace)
- —Government partnership established
- —Personally built the initial evidence base
- —15/15 doctors approached reviewed and signed support
Core & Support Team
Founder
Ajay Kumar Obulapuram
Final-year BDS
Research Support
Mani Shankar
2nd-year MBBS
Sucil Koti
2nd-year MBBS
Javed Akhtar
AIIMS Bhopal · 2nd-year MBBS
Vineet
AIIMS Bilaspur · 2nd-year MBBS
Vikash
AIIMS Rajkot · 1st-year MBBS
Pranava
AIIMS Mangalagiri · Final-year MBBS
Technology
Shaik Awais Nadeem
Technology Lead · 2nd-year BTech
07Traction & Stage
Pre-seed. Fully formulated. Pre-lab-trial.
Current Stage
Pre-seed — formulation complete
Formulation
→
Lab trials
→
Clinical trials
→
FSSAI
→
Hospital pilot
What’s Already Done
- ✓All 10 formulas fully designed, both categories
- ✓17+ peer-reviewed sources backing every ingredient
- ✓15 of 50 target doctors reviewed & signed in support
- ✓Manufacturing cost and target pricing established
What’s Ahead
- →Lab trials — stability, taste, and safety testing
- →Clinical trials — patient-level validation
- →FSSAI Food for Special Dietary Uses registration
- →First hospital pilot study
We turned down more formulas than we kept. Ask which one we killed, and why.
The next step is validation.
Platino Healthcare is raising pre-seed capital to move its evidence-backed, fully formulated platform through laboratory validation, clinical validation, regulatory execution and initial hospital and dental pilots.
Capital
- Lab trials
- Clinical validation
- Regulatory
- Manufacturing
Validation
- Hospital pilot
- Dental / OMFS pilot
- Clinical datasets
Scale
- Hospital networks
- Dental networks
- International expansion
08Get In Touch
Everything above has an unlocked version.
Full ingredient-level formulation, citation library, TAM model, and pricing detail — available on request.
We’re in conversation with a small number of pre-seed investors ahead of lab trials.
Founder
Ajay Kumar Obulapuram
Phone
+91 79890 39519
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"15 of 15 doctors approached have signed in support — zero rejections to date."