The two doctors

An airway dentist and an eye surgeon, reading the same person.

Most people get read in pieces. The creator of Glossodontics® and an eye surgeon built Aligness to read you as one picture, in one room.

Precision. Oxygen. Longevity.

The people reading your picture

Two disciplines, one conversation.

One makes the hidden airway visible. One reads the whole pattern, down to what the eyes show. They read your picture themselves, side by side.

Airway · Glossodontics® Dr. Vladimir Pastouk, DMD, ND, biological airway dentist and creator of Glossodontics

Dr. Vladimir Pastouk, DMD, ND

Biological airway dentist · Creator of Glossodontics®

He reads the structural picture almost no one else can see: the jaw, the tongue, and the airway that narrows at night. He created Glossodontics® to redevelop the airway rather than work around it. Sleep apnea diagnosis stays with sleep medicine, and he refers for it.

Credentials & background

  • DMD, NDDentist and naturopathic doctor
  • Creator of Glossodontics®The airway-development method he presents to clinicians
  • Co-Founder of Aligness
  • Presented at PTIFA, DallasThe airway model, presented to practicing peers
  • Cone-beam CT airway imagingThe airway measured, not estimated
  • Certified Master IridologistReads the eye as one integrative input, never alone
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Eyes · Functional medicine Dr. Heather Skeens, MD, CFMP, cornea, cataract, and refractive eye surgeon and functional medicine physician

Dr. Heather Skeens, MD, CFMP

Cornea, cataract & refractive eye surgeon · Functional medicine

A cornea, cataract, and refractive eye surgeon who moved into functional, whole-body medicine. She reads labs, symptoms, sleep, and history as one connected pattern, and reads what the eyes reveal about the body that carries them. The eye is held as a single non-diagnostic, integrative input, never alone.

Credentials & background

  • MD, CFMPCornea, cataract, and refractive eye surgeon
  • Co-Founder of Aligness
  • Best-selling author of Unshackled
  • Founder of BellaseeA #1 ophthalmic franchise
  • Founder, WV Cornea & Cataract Center of Excellence
  • Co-Founder & Medical Director, Elevate Mobile IV
  • Member, Harvard Business Review Advisory Council
  • Certified Master IridologistReads the eye as one integrative input, never alone
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Why these two, together

We read systems, not symptoms.

Modern medicine is built in silos. Each specialist is excellent inside their box, and almost no one is scheduled to read across them. Aligness closes that gap, holding the whole pattern on one table.

Read in pieces
The dentist reads the mouth
The physician reads the labs
The sleep lab reads the night
Each chart lives in its own place
One picture Airway, oxygen, eyes, labs, sleep, read together
Read together
The airway, measured
The oxygen the airway carries
What the eyes reveal
One shared view of where to look
One room, one shared view

They closed the gap most patients fall through.

Same people, same gap between two offices. So they closed it, holding the whole story so you do not have to.

Dr. Heather Skeens and Dr. Vladimir Pastouk, two disciplines back to back
18.32cm³ airway, measured
28.00cm³ after development
The gap

Read in pieces

One chart with your physician, another with your dentist, a third in your sleep study. Several specialists, and no map.

The fix

Read together

The creator of Glossodontics® and an eye surgeon read the same person at once. Airway, oxygen, and what the eyes reveal on one table, so nothing gets lost between offices.

The result

One shared view

One picture, one view of where to look next. You leave with the one move worth making, or an honest referral if Aligness is the wrong room.

Procedures don't heal patients. Physiology does.

Where the two readings meet

The airway carries the oxygen. The eyes show the body.

An airway that narrows at night limits the oxygen the body runs on, and an eye surgeon reads what that body reveals. Two lenses on one person, converging on one question: is this system getting what it needs?

Editorial cross-section of the tongue, jaw, and airway, the structure that carries oxygen

The airway, measured

Cone-beam CT shows where the airway narrows and how much oxygen the night is losing.

A detailed reading of the eye

What the eyes reveal

An eye surgeon reads the eye as one integrative signal of whole-body health, never alone.

Taken seriously by their field

Presented to peers, not just patients.

The Aligness model has been shared with clinicians at airway conferences, and other doctors now route their own people in.

The doctors presenting the model at a clinical conference in Dallas Taught to clinicians

Presented to peers

The whole-picture model is shared with rooms of practicing clinicians at airway conferences, not behind marketing language.

A doctor explaining a case with imaging With the imaging to back it

In front of people who do it

The airway work, put in front of people who do this for a living, with the measured imaging to back it.

Dr. Skeens and Dr. Pastouk in discussion at a blackboard A peer refers in

A physician sends their own

A practicing physician began sending their own patients, and travels in to be seen personally. Kept anonymous out of respect for privacy.

One conversation

Let two doctors sit with your whole picture.

Both doctors in the room. One clear next step worth taking, written for you. Private and by application, because doing it properly takes both of their time. If you are better served elsewhere, they will tell you honestly and point you the right way.