A breathing app for dentists and airway practices
A daily breathing app you can hand to a patient chairside. Free for your patients for twelve months, no cost to the practice, no commission.
Where breathing shows up in your practice
- Mouth breathing patients, where you are already having the nasal breathing conversation but have nowhere to send them for daily practice.
- Airway-focused and sleep dentistry work, where breathing habits sit alongside appliance therapy rather than competing with it.
- Patients who arrive having read about nasal breathing or mouth taping online and want to know what is actually worth doing.
- Paediatric airway cases where a parent asks "so what do we do at home".
What Remindful actually is
A daily breathing app. About five minutes a day.
Guided audio sessions, a simple breathing baseline measure, and progress tracking. It is built around daily repetition, which is exactly the part patients drop when they leave your chair.
What the evidence says
We would rather be straight with you than oversell this.
What the research shows
- Breathing practice has a real and growing evidence base.
- A 2023 meta-analysis pooled 12 randomised controlled trials and 785 adults and found breathwork significantly reduced self-reported stress. Anxiety across 20 trials and depressive symptoms across 18 trials moved the same way.
- A Stanford randomised controlled trial tested five minutes a day for a month. Breathwork beat mindfulness meditation on mood and lowered resting respiratory rate.
- On the airway side, a Cochrane review found myofunctional therapy probably reduces daytime sleepiness and may improve sleep quality in obstructive sleep apnoea.
What the field is still figuring out
- This is a young, fast-moving field with serious research money starting to flow into it.
- The open questions are how long the effects hold, what changes with sustained practice, and how consumer apps compare with specific facilitated programs.
What is already established is enough to make daily breathing practice a sensible, low-cost complement to the airway conversation. We make no claim that Remindful treats sleep apnoea or any other condition.
The longer versionHow the referral works
We send you a free clinic code, cards and a QR code.
Your dentist, hygienist or oral health therapist hands a card over chairside.
No extra admin, nothing added to the patient file.
The patient scans and enrols themselves.
Free for twelve months from signup, no card details, no auto-charge.
What you get
- Free access codes for every patient
- Printed cards and a QR code for the surgery and reception
- An optional waiting room information pack
- An optional free lunch and learn for your team on breathing and the airway conversation
What we do not do
- We never ask for patient details or health information.
- We make no diagnostic or treatment claims.
- We pay no commission or referral fee, deliberately.
- No cost to the practice or the patient during the pilot.
Who is behind this
Remindful is run by Daniel Augustine, a Breathless Masters Instructor and Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor who has delivered breathing sessions to teams at Google, Salesforce, Atlassian and Spotify.
