Why now
Airway is exploding. So is AI. The practices that ride both win.
Airway care is moving from the fringe to the standard of care, fast. Patients now walk in asking about sleep, breathing, and root-cause treatment by name, and demand is outpacing the number of practices trained to deliver it.
AI is moving just as fast, faster than any shift dentistry has seen. And the two compound. The airway practices that install agentic systems in 2026 will spend the next few years pulling away, seeing more patients, carrying less overhead, while everyone else is still drowning in manual work.
Give it eighteen months and neither is an edge anymore. Airway care becomes the expectation, and agentic systems become the baseline. The only question is whether your practice is the one others are catching up to, or the one doing the catching up.