DR. MIKE BENNETT, DDS, PHD, MAGD
Education, research, and advanced training.
General dentist, educator, and researcher with advanced training in airway-focused dentistry, dental sleep medicine, craniofacial pain, orthodontics, and whole-health dentistry. Dr. Bennett combines decades of clinical experience with doctoral research, advanced residencies, teaching, mentoring, and published clinical research.
THE SNAPSHOT
A career of studying the why.
Dr. Bennett has spent his career studying why dental findings so often connect to breathing, sleep, pain, and whole-body health. He continues to study, teach, research, and treat these problems today.
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Years in clinical dentistry
27+
DDS, University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry, 1999.
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Hours of continuing education
3,000+
And counting.
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Board-certified Diplomate
2x
American Board of Craniofacial Pain. American Board of Craniofacial Dental Sleep Medicine.
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Health sciences researcher
PhD
Healthcare Professions Education, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, 2024.
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Master, Academy of General Dentistry
MAGD
The AGD's highest honor, earned by a small fraction of general dentists.
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Of his dental class
Top 10%
Lifetime Member, Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honor Society.
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Published multicenter trial
1
Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea research, European Journal of Pediatrics, 2025.
Read the study -
Years teaching at BYU
22
Adjunct professor, predental and premedical education.
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Dentists mentored
100+
Clinical advisor, course instructor, and international lecturer.
Advanced clinical training.
Beyond dental school, Dr. Bennett pursued the long-form residencies and hands-on programs that most general dentists never take on:
- Academy of GP Orthodontics: 20-month orthodontic mini-residency (2007)
- TMJ & Sleep Therapy Research, San Diego: hands-on sleep and TMD residency
- Fellow, American Academy of Clinical Sleep Disorders Disciplines
- Pinhole Academy: Chao Pinhole Surgical Technique training (2022)
- American Academy of Facial Esthetics: Frontline TMJ and Facial Pain Therapy Level I hands-on training (2026)
- American Academy of Facial Esthetics: Botulinum Toxin Level 1 hands-on training (2026)
- American Academy of Facial Esthetics: Dermal Fillers Level 1 hands-on training (2026)
Research & scholarship.
Dr. Bennett is a coauthor of a 2025 multicenter clinical trial published in the European Journal of Pediatrics, studying the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in children with a non-permanent orthodontic intraoral device across five sites in the US and Canada. Read the study or view the full text at PubMed Central.
- Doctoral dissertation (2024): A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of Dentists Screening Patients for Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders
- Clinical contributor to oral-health research by Sharik L. Peck, PT, MRC, CEAS and J. Brent Feland, MSPT, PhD involving Rezzimax
- Research collaboration involving Xlear and airway and sleep-focused clinical research
His research interests center on compromised upper-airway function, screening for sleep-related breathing disorders, and the connection between sleep fragmentation and whole-body health.
Educator, mentor & international speaker.
- Adjunct professor at Brigham Young University: predental and premedical education, 1999 to 2021
- TMD and craniofacial pain course instructor
- Clinical advisor and mentor to 100+ dentists
- Former Clinical Advisory Board member, Vivos Therapeutics (2017 to 2019)
- International lecturer for LuxCreo: professional dental education in Japan and Taiwan
- Educator, podcast host, and newsletter author at More Than Teeth, focused on the mouth-body connection, airway, sleep, and whole-health dentistry
- Featured guest on the Healing at Your Core podcast: Exploring the Jaw-Pelvic Floor Link
CARE INFORMED BY RESEARCH
Book with Dr. Mike Bennett.
Comprehensive dentistry alongside advanced care in sleep, airway, TMJ, and facial pain, from a clinician who studies, teaches, and publishes in this field.