Most providers treat the symptoms in front of them — the crowded teeth, the jaw pain, the snoring, the child who can’t focus. Dr. Deal treats the upstream cause those symptoms share: the airway.
His practice is built around a single conviction — that recognizing how the airway shapes facial growth, sleep, and orofacial pain changes everything about how we should be evaluating and treating patients. The ControlledArch protocol, developed in his operatory over two decades, translates that conviction into the operatory.
Credentials
Diplomate, American Board of Craniofacial Dental Sleep Medicine (ABCDSM). Diplomate, American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine (ABDSM). Diplomate, American Board of Craniofacial Pain (ABCP). Master Senior Instructor at the Facial Beauty Institute. Faculty at the International Association for Orthodontics (IAO) and the AGD.
Where he practices
Symmetry Modern Dentistry in Little Rock, Arkansas. Tuesday through Friday. Patients travel from across the South and the country for evaluation — particularly for complex pediatric airway, TMD, and adult ControlledArch cases.
Where he teaches
Real Deal Seminars — PACE/AGD-accredited continuing education for dentists, orthodontists, and dental sleep medicine clinicians. Three free intros, one online prereq, four live cohort courses covering Pediatric, Ortho/ControlledArch, TMD, and Sleep.
Why this site exists
Two audiences. One paradigm. This site educates patients and parents enough to recognize the signs, ask the right questions, and find their way to evaluation. It also gives clinicians a reading map of the framework before they decide to train in it. Every article either ends at our schedule or at our seminar catalog, by design.
Ninety minutes will tell you whether the airway is what you’ve been missing.