Start with a telehealth consultation from home. If an appliance suits you, we book you into a partner dental clinic near you for your scan and fitting. Three devices, each with its own published evidence, made from a scan of your own teeth and fitted by a dentist.
All three are custom-made from a digital scan of your teeth and fitted and adjusted by a dentist. What changes between them is the technology inside the appliance.
Holds your lower jaw forward during sleep to keep the airway open. The same class of appliance most sleep dentists supply, made to the same standard.
Adds iACT™ — an air channel built through the body of the appliance, stabilising the tongue and allowing air to keep flowing in the presence of nasal obstruction and soft palate collapse.
in the breathing events still remaining after mandibular advancement, measured in people a standard device had not helped.2
Adds PEEP Shield™ — a one-way valve that uses your own breathing out to generate pressure inside the airway, which is the principle CPAP uses mechanically.
in the events still remaining — 12.6 down to 5.9 an hour — when the valve was added to an appliance that already had the air channel, in people new to treatment.3
Your consultations: every consultation — telehealth, scan, fitting and reviews — is gap-free with dental extras cover, and so are your check-up, clean and x-rays.*
Your appliance: claimable under item 984, which covers part of the device fee. What your fund pays depends on your policy and how much of your annual limit is left, so we check your out-of-pocket cost with you before you commit.
What’s left: interest-free payment plans are available for any out-of-pocket costs, including the appliance gap and a home sleep study.
*Subject to the policy’s waiting periods and remaining annual limits.
Sleep apnoea is easy to miss, because most of it happens while you are asleep and the daytime signs get blamed on age, stress or a busy life. Tick anything you have noticed in the last few months.
Home sleep study $299. Your gap-free telehealth consultation confirms whether you need one, and we send the WatchPAT™ to you.
This self-check is an awareness tool only. It does not provide a diagnosis and no result from it should be relied on as one. Sleep apnoea is diagnosed from a sleep study, not from a questionnaire.
The appliance holds your lower jaw forward, which carries the tongue base with it and widens the airway behind it. This is the mechanism every custom sleep appliance uses, and it is what iHeart Sleep Basic does.
A channel moulded through the appliance itself, giving air a route past a closed mouth and a retruded tongue. Added at PEEP Guard.
A one-way valve lets you breathe in freely and resists breathing out, so your own exhalation holds pressure in the airway. Expiratory positive airway pressure, generated without a machine. Added with PEEP Shield.
A conventional appliance works on one thing: jaw position. Sleep apnoea usually has more than one driver, so a partial result is common and is not a verdict on the whole approach.
The combination of an integrated air channel and a positive end expiratory pressure valve in patients who have not achieved a successful outcome with a standard oral appliance has the potential to significantly improve the clinical outcome.10 Here is what happened when patients who had previously failed therapy were escalated one step at a time, in a government-funded three-year research programme.10
Cumulative — each figure includes the people already resolved at the step before (coral shows the step’s addition). 93% were resolved with nothing worn over the face. The last 7% needed CPAP added to the appliance, at lower pressure and without a full face mask.
| iHeart Sleep Basic | PEEP Guard with PEEP Shield | CPAP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandibular advancement | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Integrated air channel | — | ✓ iACT™ | — |
| Positive airway pressure | — | ✓ oral EPAP | ✓ continuous |
| Mask, hose, bedside machine | — | — | Required |
| Worn in the mouth | ✓ | ✓ | — |
CPAP is an effective treatment when it is used consistently, and we are not going to tell you otherwise. The question is which treatment you will still be using in a year.
A video consultation with a dentist from home. We go through your symptoms and any sleep study you have, and work out whether you need a new one.
Gap-free with extras*If you haven’t had a recent sleep study, we send you a WatchPAT™ home sleep test. You wear it on your wrist and finger for one night in your own bed.
$299 out of pocketWe book you into the partner clinic nearest you for a check-up, clean, x-rays and a digital scan, and confirm your item 984 benefit and out-of-pocket cost before anything is made.
Gap-free with extras*Your appliance is fitted and adjusted, with follow-up reviews to fine-tune it to your sleep.
Gap-free with extras*Clinic appointments are booked by our team after your telehealth consultation. Interest-free payment plans are available for any out-of-pocket costs. *For patients with dental extras cover, subject to the policy’s waiting periods and remaining annual limits.
A 20-minute video consultation with our clinical team, gap-free with dental extras cover. Choose a time that suits you below.
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Your scan, fitting and reviews happen at a partner dental clinic near you. Clinic visits are arranged by our team after your telehealth consultation, so start there and we will book you in at the location that suits you.
Three devices, listed in full further up this page: iHeart Sleep Basic $1,199, PEEP Guard $1,495 and PEEP Guard with PEEP Shield $1,795. The appliance is claimable under item 984, and we confirm your out-of-pocket cost with you before you commit.
With dental extras cover, every consultation is gap-free — telehealth, scan, fitting and reviews — as are your check-up, clean and x-rays, subject to your policy’s waiting periods and remaining annual limits.
If you need a home sleep study, it is $299 out of pocket. Interest-free payment plans are available for any out-of-pocket costs.
A short call with our clinical team. They will go through your diagnosis, your sleep study and what you have already tried, tell you honestly whether this is worth trying for you, and check what your fund would pay.
No cost and no obligationClinical results shown on this page are from published studies of oral appliance technologies incorporating the integrated air-channel and/or oral EPAP mechanisms underlying PEEP Guard™, and should not be interpreted as results from direct clinical trials of the current PEEP Guard™ device. Study populations, designs and outcomes vary. Individual treatment response may vary. Obstructive sleep apnoea requires diagnosis and management by a qualified clinician; nothing on this page is a substitute for individual clinical assessment.
