102 BWA | JUL 2026 improved turnaround times and order backlog reduced to negligible levels. In a custom-manufactured medicaldevice business, those are not minor process wins — they are central to growth and customer confidence. The strongest part of the SomnoMed story, though, is how clearly the company’s partner ecosystem is defined. Its public materials repeatedly position SomnoMed as working in concert with dental sleep professionals and sleep physicians, rather than trying to bypass either side of the care pathway. The company says dentists and sleep physicians work together to diagnose and identify the most effective treatment for each patient, and that its milestone of more than one million devices reflects the role of both dental practitioners and physician collaborators. That collaborative treatment model is one reason the company feels more embedded than many device makers. SomnoMed is not just shipping appliances into clinics; it is supporting a workflow in which physicians diagnose and oversee care, dentists fit and monitor appliances, and the patient is managed through a more integrated oral-appliance therapy pathway. That is exactly the kind of clinical alignment that can help broaden adoption in a treatment category still often compared against CPAP. Its product suite is also becoming more digitally enabled. On its SomnoDent Avant pages, the company says the device is designed from a digital photo or scan of the patient’s teeth using CAD tools and then milled by computer-controlled robots. SomnoMed has also ex-
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