Indianapolis · Patients fly in from across the country and overseas
Where years of symptoms finally make sense.
Headaches, a clicking jaw, snoring, a neck that never settles. He reads the airway, the jaw and the face as one structure, and treats it with an appliance worn only at night. They fly in from St. Louis, Chicago, San Diego and overseas for that read.
- 1983Practising since
- 14Years, Top Dentist
- 21Published articles
- 2Sleep diplomates
What he treats
Nine reasons people come, and one structure underneath them.
Most arrive with a list: the headaches, the clicking, the snoring, the neck. He treats what those things are standing on.
01Headaches and migrainesYears of them, often through the temples and behind the eyes, with a jaw nobody connected to it.
- 01Headaches and migrainesYears of them, often through the temples and behind the eyes, with a jaw nobody connected to it.
- 02TMJ: clicking, popping, lockingA joint that is not level with the other, seated on a temporal bone that has rotated.
- 03Snoring and sleep apneaA narrow upper arch, no room for the tongue, and a night spent hunting for air.
- 04A CPAP you cannot wearFor the patients who tried and could not keep it on, an appliance worn only at night.
- 05Forward head posture and the neckThe head comes forward to find air, and the neck carries it there all day.
- 06Ringing ears, fullness, dizzinessThe ear sits on the same bone as the jaw joint. They travel together more often than not.
- 07Mouth breathingNose breathing makes nitric oxide and puts the tongue back in the palate. Supplements do not replace it.
- 08Grinding and clenchingNot a habit to be padded with a night guard, but a bite looking for a home to go to.
- 09Facial asymmetry and the ageing faceOne eye higher, one ear further out, a chin that drifts. The reason many patients arrive.
What he reads, in the first minuteWhat he reads first
- Orbital plane
- Otic plane
- Occlusal plane
- Midline
The face is a map.
Four planes, read by eye before any scan: the eyes, the ears, where the teeth meet, and the midline. Turn the head, and see what he is looking for.
And Dr. Adams knows how to read it.
One patient each morning.
The whole morning is yours, and so is his attention.
Most people arrive after years of being treated one symptom at a time. He reads the airway, the jaw and the face as one structure, and treats the structure.
- 1983Practising since
- 0Published articles
- 0Sleep Diplomates, ASBA and ACSDD
- 1Patient each morning
The published case
A 37-year-old woman. Seven TMJ appliances over ten years, a chiropractor every week. Twenty months of an appliance worn at night only.
What it measured- 100 → 189 mm²
- Airway area at the narrowest slice
- 16,900 → 28,179 mm³
- Airway volume
- Weekly → 3 months
- How often she saw her chiropractor
One patient, one case, published by the American Sleep and Breathing Academy in 2024. Results vary; these are the figures printed on her own plates.
In his words
“I treat airway and TMJ combined because I look at something totally different. I look at craniofacial asymmetry. And that affects everything.”
One side of the face narrower than the other. One ear out a little more, at a different level. A jaw that goes to one side on opening. One eye a little higher. The appliance that changes it is worn at night, and only at night.
The site
Five rooms. Start anywhere.
Talks
Twenty minutes with him will change how you look at a face.
Clips from his lectures and podcast conversations. Watch first, read after.
They come from St. Louis, Chicago, San Diego and overseas.
Most fly in on Sunday, are seen on Monday morning, and are home by evening.
In patients’ words
Read the reviews“Never dreamed an appliance could give these results.”
The patient in the 2024 case report, after twenty months
Credentials
Taught at the Indiana University School of Dentistry. Clinical Director of the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies. Diplomate of the American Sleep and Breathing Academy, and Indiana’s only ACSDD sleep Diplomate. Published, as co-author, in Dental Clinics of North America. An Indianapolis Top Dentist fourteen years running.
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