Dental Sleep Medicine Insider May 2016 | Page 7

The MATRx Titration System To be truly disruptive, Zephyr is now on the path to: • Reduce the overall cost of delivering the MATRx test, • Make the MATRx capability more accessible, and • Change the business model to provide structural cost advantage to our healthcare system. What drives Dr. Remmers and the Zephyr team is better health, better quality of life and the opportunity to make a real difference. What drives Dr. Remmers and the Zephyr team is better health, better quality of life and the opportunity to make a real difference. By creating new technology, Dr. Remmers and the team of 32 engineers, scientists and business professionals at Zephyr are changing sleep medicine. Dr. Remmers has been around treating OSA for decades and despite billions of dollars spent, is frankly disappointed with our ability to treat this illness. There are two primary reasons for our poor performance: i) CPAP, our treatment of choice, isn’t well tolerated or accepted and ii) OSA inclusion rates are overwhelming our healthcare system due to an aging and increasingly obese population. This is no longer an illness/treatment issue, this is now a global healthcare problem. 5,000 sleep centers in the US are no longer capable of dealing with the sheer scale of this problem. We need alternative treatments, higher effectiveness and better access. Since the release of MATRx, and after four years of hard work, three clinical trials, a little bit of luck and buckets of tenacity, creativity and commitment – Zephyr is getting ready to release the next version of the MATRx – MATRx for the home…stay tuned! The MATRx Technology In 2012, Zephyr brought Dr. Remmers’ in-lab MATRx technology to market. After prescribing a MATRx test, a sleep physician determines two key pieces of information: STOP BY OUR AADSM BOOTH #112 i) Will the patient’s OSA be treated with an oral appliance and if so ii) What is the target protrusive position? Meet Dr. Remmers and the Zephyr team, and demo our MATRx technology! MATRx is a patient SELECTION tool. By selecting patients we know will respond to OAT, in advance, we increase oral appliance efficacy. The oft-maligned OAT is now reinvigorated by being “prescribable” by a sleep physician with the confidence in its treatment outcome. MATRx technology puts OAT efficacy on par with CPAP efficacy and with higher adherence, should move the needle on therapy effectiveness. For more information contact Jodi Jacks, Director, Sales and Distribution Mobile: 614-316-5420 | Email: [email protected]