Most dental sleep courses are built for sleep-only practices. So when a general dentist tries to copy that model, the workflow buckles, the team stalls, claims get denied, and less than 5% ever make it off the starting line. Dr. Erin Elliott runs a thriving general practice and treats a lot of sleep. In this…
Dentists take the course. Fill the notebook. Nod at all the right moments. Then they go home and do nothing with it. Dr. Jamison Spencer has watched that happen for 25 years, and in this episode he tells Dr. Erin Elliott and Jason Tierney exactly why it keeps happening. Along the way: PRF and why…
In this episode, Dr. Erin Elliott and Jason Tierney sit down with Dr. Madan Kandula to explore a part of airway care that too often gets overlooked: the nose. Dr. Kandula is a board-certified ENT and the founder/CEO of ADVENT, an ENT practice built around treating airway concerns across what he calls the “breathing triangle.”…
In this episode, Dr. Elliott and Jason Tierney sit down with Dr. Mark Murphy to discuss the skill no one wants to talk about that goes ignored at your detriment: communication. Dr. Murphy has spent more than 30 years in dental sleep medicine, from teaching alongside Dr. Keith Thornton at the Pankey Institute to practicing…
In this episode, the co-hosts take a step back and tell you who they are, how they got here, and why Sleep Matters. Jason’s path into dental sleep started nearly 20 years ago at a large dental lab. Early demand for snore devices sent him down a rabbit hole that never ended — device inventors,…
In this episode of Sleep Matters, Dr. Erin Elliott and Jason Tierney are joined by inventor Jim Marsh and sleep researcher Dr. Poppy May Gardiner to explore an unconventional but increasingly talked-about sleep technology: SleepVibe. Jim Marsh, a mechanical engineer turned sleep device inventor, shares the touching personal story that led him to develop SleepVibe…
In this episode, Dr. Anthony Bolamperti joins Dr. Erin Elliott and Jason Tierney to talk about how laser dentistry transformed his practice, why tethered oral tissues are often overlooked in sleep medicine, and how functional frenuloplasty can become a powerful tool for treating airway patients. After years of trying different laser systems and struggling to…
In this episode, Dr. Craig Harder joins Dr. Erin Elliott and Jason Tierney to talk about the kind of career shift most dentists hope they never have to face, but every practice owner should be prepared for. After nearly 30 years in private practice, Dr. Harder was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The diagnosis changed his…
In this episode, Ryan Javanbakht joins Jason Tierney and Dr. Erin Elliott to break down one of the biggest issues in dental sleep medicine: patient follow-through on testing. Most practices think they have a testing problem. They don’t; they have a communication problem. Patients drop off because they don’t fully understand why it matters, what…
In this episode, Jason Tierney and Dr. Erin Elliott talk with Dr. Johnny Ukich about the slow shift from focusing mainly on cavities and traditional pediatric care to recognizing the early signs of sleep-disordered breathing in kids. What does it take for a busy pediatric dentist to start seeing airway differently? For Dr. Ukich, that…