Today we’d like to introduce you to Allen Davis.
Hi Allen, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
My path has been anything but linear, which I think is actually what makes it interesting.
I started in dentistry — 8 years active duty as a dentist. Now I work in a general practice in Payson, Utah — but I kept getting pulled toward the patients nobody else was solving for: the ones who couldn’t sleep, woke up with jaw pain, had headaches every morning, and had bounced from provider to provider without answers. That pulled me deep into sleep medicine and orofacial pain, eventually leading me to complete a Master’s degree in Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine from USC.
While that clinical world was expanding, I also had an entrepreneurial itch that dentistry alone couldn’t scratch. I launched Good Rest Sleep & TMJ Center and then Good Rest Med Spa — a veteran-owned wellness practice in Payson, Utah that my wife Jeanne and I run together. We’ve built it from the ground up: services, systems, brand, team, all of it. There’s something deeply satisfying about creating something that genuinely helps people feel better in their bodies.
Alongside the clinical work, I’m a Major in the U.S. Army Reserve, which has shaped how I think about leadership, systems, and service more than almost anything else.
Most recently, I co-founded ScreenHx with my sister Annamarie — an AI-powered clinical screening platform designed to help providers identify patients who fall through the cracks. It’s the intersection of everything I care about: clinical credibility, technology, and scale.
I’m a husband, dad of six, and someone who genuinely believes the best work happens at the intersection of people, purpose, and well-designed systems.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Smooth? No. Worthwhile? Absolutely.
The honest answer is that building multiple businesses while serving in the military Reserve, raising six kids, and pursuing a graduate degree simultaneously means you’re constantly operating at the edge of your capacity. There’s no season where everything is calm — you just get better at managing the chaos.
Early on, the hardest thing was figuring out that clinical excellence and business success are completely different skill sets. I was trained to be a good clinician. Nobody trains you to hire, fire, build systems, read a P&L, or market a service. I had to learn most of that the hard way — through bad hires, failed experiments, and decisions I’d make differently today.
Building Good Rest has come with its share of operational growing pains. Staffing is perpetually one of the hardest parts of running a small healthcare business. Getting the right people, keeping them, and building a culture worth staying for — that’s ongoing work, not a problem you solve once.
The military adds a layer of complexity too. Balancing Reserve obligations alongside clinical and business demands requires a level of planning and sacrifice that doesn’t always get acknowledged. But honestly, the discipline it’s built has made me a better leader in every other area of my life.
And then launching ScreenHx — stepping into the startup world as a clinician with no prior tech company experience — that’s been its own education. Learning to build a product, talk to investors, navigate legal and compliance, and think like a CEO rather than a doctor has required real humility.
The through-line in all of it is that the struggle is usually where the growth is hiding.
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Good Rest is really two connected businesses built around one core idea: most people are walking around exhausted, in pain, or both — and they deserve better answers than they’ve been getting.
Good Rest Sleep & TMJ Center is the clinical side. We specialize in sleep-disordered breathing, TMJ dysfunction, orofacial pain, and headache disorders. These are conditions that are massively underdiagnosed and undertreated — patients often spend years cycling through providers before anyone connects the dots. We connect the dots. We offer oral appliance therapy for sleep apnea, TMJ treatment, and a multidisciplinary approach that takes the whole person seriously. The fact that I hold a Master’s degree in Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine from USC means our clinical depth is real, not just marketing.
Good Rest Med Spa is where clinical credibility meets wellness and aesthetics. We’re a veteran-owned practice in Payson, Utah, and we’ve built something that’s genuinely different from the typical med spa experience. Our services include laser treatments, contrast therapy, medical-grade aesthetics, massage, injectables, head spa, and more — but the differentiator is that everything we offer is grounded in a philosophy of restoration, not just appearance. Real rest, real recovery, real results.
What sets us apart is the combination of clinical credibility, genuine care, and intentional brand design. We’re not a franchise. We’re not a cookie-cutter operation. My wife Jeanne and I built this together, and that shows in how our team treats people.
What I’m most proud of, brand-wise, is that we’ve built something that feels cohesive and trustworthy — from the visual identity to the patient experience to the services we’ve chosen to offer. People come to Good Rest because they want to feel better, and they keep coming back because they do.
Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up?
Honestly, I was a lot as a kid — in the best way, I think.
I was the kid who wanted to know everybody, compete in everything, understand how things worked, and then figure out how to make something out of it. Social, driven, curious, and always with some kind of scheme in motion. Those four things haven’t changed much.
I was drawn to leadership early — not because I sought titles, but because I genuinely liked bringing people together and figuring out how to get things done. Sports were a big part of my life and taught me more about teamwork, resilience, and competing with integrity than almost anything else. And underneath all of it was a real love of learning — I was the kind of kid who actually liked school, liked ideas, liked understanding why things were the way they were.
Looking back, the throughline is pretty clear: I’ve always been energized by people, motivated by challenge, and restless enough to keep asking what’s next. The businesses, the military service, the graduate degree, the startup — none of that came out of nowhere. It’s just the same kid, with more tools and higher stakes.
Pricing:
- Pricing varies by service and treatment plan. We’d love to connect and find the right fit for you.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://goodrestmedspa.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/goodrestmedspa
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/goodrestmedspa
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Sleep_School
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