Dr. Samadian is a San Francisco dentist with advanced training in TMJ disorders, sleep apnea, orofacial pain, bite reconstruction, craniofacial development, and integrative airway-focused dentistry. His approach considers the relationship between jaw function, airway health, breathing patterns, sleep quality, dental wear, facial structure, and overall wellness.
DDS · MBA · DAADSM · Diplomate, American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine
Dr. Amin Samadian is a San Francisco dentist with advanced training in TMJ disorders, oral sleep apnea, orofacial pain, bite reconstruction, craniofacial development, and integrative airway-focused dentistry. His work is built around a core clinical principle: TMJ and sleep apnea are rarely isolated problems.
Jaw pain, clenching, grinding, headaches, neck tension, poor sleep, airway restriction, worn teeth, bite instability, posture, inflammation, and systemic health are often connected. At the San Francisco Center for TMJ and Sleep Apnea, Dr. Samadian evaluates the jaw joints, bite, airway, muscles, breathing patterns, sleep quality, dental wear, facial structure, and overall health together.
Many patients have already seen multiple providers before they arrive. Jaw pain may be dismissed as stress, headaches may be treated as unrelated, tooth wear may be called normal aging, and fatigue may be ignored. Dr. Samadian looks for the relationship between structure, function, and physiology.
This broader diagnostic model is especially important for patients experiencing jaw or facial pain, clicking, locking, clenching, worn teeth, headaches, neck tension, snoring, poor sleep, CPAP intolerance, bite instability, airway restriction, mouth breathing, or childhood developmental concerns.
Dr. Samadian combines dental, orthopedic, airway, and integrative health evaluation. Each patient is assessed as a whole system rather than a collection of isolated complaints.
A nightguard may protect teeth from wear, but it does not always address the underlying cause of TMJ dysfunction, airway restriction, bite collapse, or sleep-disordered breathing. Treatment recommendations depend on diagnosis and clinical evaluation.
Care may include custom TMJ orthotics, oral appliance therapy, bite stabilization, full-mouth reconstruction when needed, Botox therapy, trigger-point therapy, regenerative support, laser therapy, myofunctional coordination, airway support, orthodontic planning, nutrition guidance, and interdisciplinary care.
Dr. Samadian is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine. Sleep apnea can affect energy, mood, blood pressure, metabolism, inflammation, cognitive function, cardiovascular risk, and quality of life.
He evaluates airway, jaw structure, tongue posture, nasal breathing, bite position, and craniofacial development. For appropriate patients, oral appliance therapy may support airway function during sleep, especially when CPAP is not tolerated or dental sleep care is indicated.
TMJ disorders often overlap with myofascial pain, headaches, migraines, neck tension, shoulder discomfort, and chronic muscle tightness. Pain may move between the jaw, face, temples, ears, neck, and shoulders.
Evaluation includes clenching patterns, bite overload, jaw joint position, muscle trigger points, posture, breathing, and sleep quality. The goal is to reduce overload, improve jaw stability, decrease muscle strain, and address the factors that keep the pain cycle active.
Dr. Samadian evaluates children and adolescents for craniofacial development, airway restriction, mouth breathing, poor tongue posture, orthodontic crowding, sleep-disordered breathing, and early signs of jaw imbalance.
Many adult TMJ and airway problems begin earlier in development. Early evaluation can help identify concerns before they become more complex adult problems.
A third-generation doctor, Dr. Samadian is a graduate of Tehran Azad University and the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. He earned his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. His advanced training includes oral sleep medicine, craniofacial pain, implant dentistry, full-mouth rehabilitation, cosmetic dentistry, and complex bite reconstruction.
Dr. Samadian serves as a faculty member at the University of the Pacific in San Francisco, where he shares his experience with students in the Department of Integrated Reconstructive Sciences. His clinical background brings together TMJ care, dental sleep medicine, airway-focused dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, implant dentistry, and complex bite reconstruction.
For referring providers seeking a complete overview of his training, publications, speaking, and professional background, a full curriculum vitae is available below.
Dr. Samadian founded Dion Health and Aurea Health from a broader vision of connecting dentistry, medicine, diagnostics, and technology. After building a multi-location craniofacial and dental health platform, he began formalizing clinical protocols focused on TMJ, sleep, airway, oral-systemic health, facial structure, and AI-enabled care coordination.
Aurea Health is designed to bridge dentistry and medicine through diagnostics, education, data-driven care, and coordinated treatment planning.
