Epworth Sleepiness Scale
A brief screening questionnaire measuring how likely you are to doze off during common daytime activities. Your answers can help identify excessive daytime sleepiness that may warrant further evaluation.
This assessment does not diagnose sleep apnea or any other condition. A healthcare provider must interpret your symptoms alongside your history and, when appropriate, sleep testing.
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Excessive sleepiness can affect driving and workplace safety. Do not drive or operate dangerous equipment when you feel unable to remain alert. Contact a healthcare provider for guidance.
The Epworth Sleepiness Scale is a screening tool and does not diagnose obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy, or any other medical condition. Your score should be reviewed together with your symptoms, health history, medications, and any appropriate sleep testing.
This screening tool is for educational purposes only and does not provide a diagnosis. Your answers and score are not saved or transmitted.
Print this page to take to your own provider, or reach out to us. Requesting a consultation does not send your answers or score — it only shares the contact details you choose to give us.
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The Epworth Sleepiness Scale is a screening tool and does not diagnose obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy, or any other medical condition. Bring or send this report to your healthcare provider for review.
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Let’s talk about your practice.
A 30-minute call with Eric Northey. We’ll walk through what running dental sleep medicine alongside your practice actually looks like — credentialing, billing, training, and referrals.
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We’re finalizing the pilot data and NCAA case study. In the meantime, grab 30 minutes with Eric Northey and we’ll walk you through the protocol directly.
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Breathe better — all day, and all night.
Simulated high-altitude training, myofunctional therapy, and dental sleep medicine — built around a single question: how is this person breathing, and how could it be better?
Three programs.
One mission.
Breathing is the thread that connects athletic performance, airway health, and sleep. Breathe Better America was built to treat it that way — one mission, delivered through three specialized programs.
Total Dental Sleep Solutions
The national home for dental sleep medicine — FDA-cleared oral appliance therapy for sleep apnea and snoring, delivered through a growing provider network.
How it worksMyofunctional Therapy Training
A structured, evidence-based program that retrains tongue posture, nasal breathing, and swallow patterns — improving airway function, sleep, and quality of life.
How it worksSimulated High-Altitude Training
Restrictive-breathing and altitude-simulation protocols that condition the respiratory system indoors — for athletes, teams, and tactical performers who need every breath to count.
How it worksA dental sleep practice that runs alongside yours.
The simplest way to put it: you keep doing what you do. We plug in the credentialing, the billing, the compliance, and the training — all the machinery that makes treating sleep apnea in-house actually work, without it becoming a second job.
Most practices that get into this space either spend a couple of rough years building that themselves, or never quite get around to it and keep referring patients out. This is the version where you skip both.
Retrain the muscles that control your airway.
Our 12-session program retrains the muscles of the tongue, mouth, and airway — correcting nasal breathing, oral rest posture, and swallow patterns through a structured progression from assessment through long-term retention.
Delivered by trained therapists as an adjunct to CPAP and oral appliance therapy — not a replacement.
Train the lungs the way you train the muscles.
Our program uses simulated-altitude and restrictive-breathing protocols — hypoxic masks, tents, and progressive breathing ladders — to condition the respiratory system the same deliberate way strength coaches condition muscle. No mountain required.
Developed alongside collegiate and tactical athletic programs, it is built for teams who depend on breathing efficiency under fatigue: better oxygen economy, faster recovery between efforts, and a wider ceiling late in competition.
When CPAP alone isn’t enough.
Only 30% of patients achieve high adherence to CPAP after two years. For patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea, that gap matters enormously — and it is the problem combination therapy was built to solve.
In the Texas Dental Journal, Dr. Martin Denbar presents the clinical rationale and three documented case outcomes for interfaced combination therapy — a TAP-PAP CS Interface coupled with a TAP 3 Triple Laminate oral appliance, advancing the mandible and delivering nasal positive airway pressure through a single headgear-free interface.
“Across three patients with baseline AHI ranging from 72.3 to 84.4 events per hour, interfaced combination therapy achieved a mean AHI reduction of 95%, with all patients reaching therapeutic AHI levels.”
From the abstract
The Dental Sleep Medicine Summit 2027
Breathe Better America is sponsoring the inaugural Dental Sleep Medicine Summit — a two-day, single-track conference presented by Texas Dental Sleep Services that puts clinical mastery and the business of building a dental sleep program in the same room.
Five featured speakers, two limited-enrollment hands-on workshops, and a working provider panel — including a keynote from the inventor of the TAP® oral appliance. Every attendee moves through the same curriculum, so the clinician, the owner, and the team leave aligned.
All sessions designed to be CE-eligible. CE accreditation pending (AGD PACE) — final credit hours confirmed upon approval. Early-bird pricing available.
Tell us who you are — we'll point you to the right program.
Snoring, apnea, or poor sleep
Start with a screening. We'll route you to oral appliance therapy, myofunctional therapy, or both — coordinated with your physician.
Join the provider network
Training, insurance coordination, and physician referral pathways — a proven route to building a dental sleep practice.
Coaches, ADs, tactical units
Bring a simulated-altitude and restrictive-breathing protocol to your program. Pilot data and an NCAA case study available on request.
What people ask us most.
Choose a program to see the questions we hear from patients, dentists, and coaches. Everything here is educational — not a diagnosis or a substitute for individual medical advice.
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Take the first step toward quieter nights, healthier breathing, and more restorative sleep. Our team can help you understand your symptoms, review your current treatment, and identify the appropriate next step.
This information is educational and is not a diagnosis or a substitute for individualized medical advice. Do not stop CPAP, discontinue an oral appliance, change prescribed treatment, or begin simulated high-altitude training without consulting the appropriate healthcare provider. Seek urgent medical attention for chest pain, severe breathing difficulty, fainting, confusion, or dangerous daytime sleepiness while driving.
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