Bill HangDental Practitioner, Lecturer at OrthO2Health

Kevin Adair DDS MSD - Who Should Join

26 Jan 2021 · 1 min

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In this segment, Kevin Adair (SPEAKER A) explains why joining the ERS (Expiratory Resistance System) program is a logical step for clinicians who practice orthotropics. He notes that many children cannot be treated with orthotropics because they are too old or uncooperative, and without an alternative they risk developing sleep‑related and airway problems later. ERS provides a non‑surgical option that can address these issues in both older children and adults, expanding the clinician’s ability to help patients who were previously untreatable. Adair emphasizes that ERS complements existing modalities such as jaw surgery, offering a chance to truly cure airway and sleep disorders rather than merely manage symptoms, and he expresses personal and professional enthusiasm for the opportunity to reach a broader patient population.

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For me personally, it was just an obvious decision because I've been doing orthotropics and you have a lot of kids that you just can't help for a number of reasons. They're too old or they're just not going to be cooperative. So you need to have something else that you can do to help these kids. They're, they're, they're, if they're not suffering now, they will be. As well as taking care of adults and the parents of these kids, they realize that they have issues and they have problems. And they want to be helped. And without ERS, there's not much that I can do to help them. I can talk about jaw surgery. I can talk about other modalities that can manage the problem that they have with sleep issues or airway issues. But there was nothing that I could do that might be helpful for, for actually curing it. So personally and professionally, for me, it was just an amazing opportunity to be able to help people that I previously couldn't help.