Our Story
The mouth was never separate from the body.
Dion Health exists to close the oldest gap in healthcare — the one between the dentist's chair and the rest of your medicine.
01 — Where it began
Across sixteen years of practice caring for families in San Francisco and across the Bay Area, Dr. Samadian kept noticing the same pattern, again and again.
The patients who ground their teeth were the ones who didn't sleep. The ones who didn't sleep were tired, inflamed, aging faster. The mouth kept telling a story about the whole body — and the rest of medicine wasn't listening. Dion Health is the practice built to listen.
In Dr. Samadian's words
Why we look at dentistry differently.
A few minutes with Dr. Samadian on why the mouth belongs in the conversation about your whole health — and how that changes the care you get.
Dr. Amin Samadian, DDS
Why we look at dentistry differently.
Meet Dr. Samadian
02 — Why we're different
We treat the mouth as part of your health — connected to how you breathe, how you sleep, and how you age.
Airway, bite, sleep, inflammation, the structure of your face — these aren't separate problems in separate offices. They're one system. Most dentistry stops at the tooth. We start with the system the tooth lives in, and we plan for the next thirty years, not the next appointment.
What that belief looks like in the chair.
Dentistry belongs in the health conversation
Your dentist sees you more often than most physicians do. That's a chance to catch the airway, sleep, and structural signals that shape your long-term health — not just to fill a cavity.
One clinician, the whole arc
Dr. Samadian maps, plans, and delivers your care personally. No rotating providers, no hand-offs — the person who understands your case is the person who treats it.
Built to last decades
We design around how your bite, airway, and face change over time — so the work we do today still serves you in twenty years, not just this year.
Our Approach
We map before we treat.
Most dentistry starts with the tooth that hurts. We start with the whole system it lives in — your bite, your breathing, and the way you age — and we diagnose it properly before we touch anything.
03 — Why it matters
How you breathe while you sleep shapes how you feel awake.
The way you breathe at night touches nearly everything about the day — your energy, your focus, and the repair your body does while it rests.a1 When the airway is obstructed, sleep fragments and rest stops doing its job. So we look for the airway story behind snoring, clenching, and tired mornings — and treat the bite and airway as one system, not two.
Dentistry doesn’t stop at the teeth. When sleep-disordered breathing is suspected, we work alongside your physician — who makes the diagnosis — rather than in a silo.
04 — How we diagnose
Before we treat anything, we map everything.
01
Oral Mapping
Before we treat anything, we map everything — your teeth, your bite, your jaw joints, your gums, and your airway, and how they connect. A symptom in one place usually starts somewhere else, and mapping the whole system is how we find the real cause instead of chasing the noise.
02
3D CT scan diagnosis
We see in three dimensions. Low-dose cone-beam CT (CBCT) reveals the bone, nerves, sinuses, and airway that a flat X-ray simply can't show.¹ That's the difference between guessing and knowing — safer placement, clearer diagnosis, fewer surprises.d1
03
Digital treatment planning
Your plan is engineered before we begin. Intraoral scanning and digital planning let us design the result — and show it to you — before any treatment starts. You see where we're going, and why, in plain terms.
05 — In-house craft
Designed, milled, and finished under one roof.
Most of what goes in your mouth is made somewhere else, by someone who never meets you. Ours isn’t. Our in-house digital lab — with a master ceramist, CAD/CAM milling, and 3D printing — designs and finishes many restorations on site.
That means same-day restorations for the right cases, color matched to your face in person, and fewer trips back and forth.
06 — The journey
Care planned on purpose — not reacted to.
Year 1
Baseline
A whole-health picture: your airway, your bite, your goals, and an honest plan — no pressure.
Year 2
Foundation
We address what matters first, in the right order, so the rest of your care builds on solid ground.
Year 3
Function
Breathing, sleep, and bite working together — the point where most patients notice how much better they feel.
Year 5
Maintained
A smile and a system cared for on purpose, not reacted to — designed to age well with you.
07 — Who you’ll see
One team, trained to look for the cause.
You’re cared for by people, not a rotating chain. Dr. Samadian leads every plan personally, with a team trained to move you from reacting to problems toward getting ahead of them — catching what’s coming before it becomes the thing that hurts.
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Meet the founder
Dr. Amin Samadian, a leader in craniofacial care.
Founder & CEO, Dion Health · Leader in Craniofacial Integrative Care
A third-generation clinician who grew up in his father's practice, Dr. Samadian has spent his career pioneering craniofacial integrative care — treating the mouth as part of the whole body, where the airway, the bite, sleep, and the way a face ages are one connected system, not separate complaints in separate offices. He earned his DDS at the University of the Pacific's Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry — where he went on to teach — and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and founded Dion Health to bring that model to more people.
American Dental AssociationCalifornia Dental AssociationAmerican Academy of Cosmetic DentistryAmerican Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine
Training & credentials
- DDS — UOP Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry
- MBA — Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
- Faculty — Integrated Reconstructive Sciences, UOP Dugoni
- Diplomate, American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine
- Fellow, International Congress of Oral Implantologists
- Fellow, American Academy of Craniofacial Pain
- Fellow, Misch Implant Institute
- Mastership of Esthetics — Rosenthal Aesthetic Advantage, NYU
In patients’ words
The people we’ve cared for.
This is the dentist you dream of finding. Just perfection. I have veneers, at least eight caps, and challenging teeth. The doctor has given me a beautiful smile that will last for decades.
This is the best dentist I've ever had! Not only does he take his time to explain exactly what's going on, but he works quickly and efficiently.
I get my TMJ treatment from Dion Health, and all I can say is the staff is amazing and always takes great care of me!
Before Dr. Samadian I went to seven other implant places. None did it for me. My smile has enhanced my life a hundredfold.
I received the teeth the same day. During surgery it was a piece of cake — I was shocked, no pain. No pain meds, maybe an Advil.
Dr. Samadian found something wrong with my TMJ — that led to a sleep-apnea test. I found out I have sleep apnea.
I went to ClearChoice. They tried to give me a good deal, but I wasn't confident in their doctors. I did my research and chose Dr. Samadian.
He makes choices not for me but with me. He's become a friend.
At the end of the day it's just money. A smile is a lifetime thing. The money can come and go — I'd rather have my smile.
I've been seeing Dr. Amin Samadian for many years now, and he is outstanding, efficient, and thorough.
Verbatim from real patients. Individual results vary; candidacy is determined at consultation.
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A glimpse of what we share.
Education, real patient smiles, and a look inside the practice — on Instagram and YouTube.
A different kind of first visit
See what a real diagnosis looks like.
Oral mapping, a 3D look, and an honest plan — before any treatment begins.
- a1.Obstructed breathing during sleep is associated with fragmented, less-restorative sleep and daytime fatigue. Dental appliance therapy and airway-focused care are recognized management options for appropriate candidates; a diagnosis of sleep-disordered breathing is made by a physician. This is general information, not a promise of individual results.
- d1.Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is a low-dose 3D imaging technology used for diagnosis and treatment planning in implant, airway, TMJ, and complex dental cases. It is used when the diagnostic benefit justifies it, at the lowest reasonable radiation dose. CBCT is a diagnostic tool, not a treatment, and does not guarantee any outcome.