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Does Selling Have a Place in Dentistry?

by Dr. Chelsea Erickson Do you ever read something that just makes you think about why you do what you do? I recently read an ...

LIAISONS: Moving Collaborative Care from Idea to Reality

by Stacey Larkin, RDH, OMT Public and practitioner interest in airway, sleep and breathing issues (ASB) is growing like wildfire. ASB issues affect health, performance, ...

Management of Temporomandibular Disorders with Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy

by Zareth Jana Hernández, DMD Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are debilitating conditions that may cause pain, dysfunction, and impaired quality of life.1 TMD patients may present ...

Legal Misalignment

How Corporate Practice Doctrines Bite Against Sleep Doctors and Sleep Dentists by Daniel B. Brown, Esq. Nobody goes to dental school to become a durable ...

Happy 57th Birthday to the Beast Known as Sleep Apnea!

The Monster Has left The Building. What Do We D0?  by David E. McCarty, MD, FAASM If Sleep Apnea – as a construct – can ...

Be the Lotus

Lisa MolerFounder/CEO, MedMark Media In an array of colors, blue, white, purple, red, or pink, lotuses are touted as symbols of peace, beauty, and longevity. ...

Precision Oral Appliance Therapy

The New Paradigm in Physician Acceptance of Oral Appliance Therapy in the Treatment of Obstruction Sleep Apnea by Edward T. Sall, MD, DDS, MBA In ...

Sleep and Pain: Can’t We Pick Just One?

by Steven D. Bender, DDS  The relationship between pain and sleep has been extensively studied but continues to remain ambiguous. It is widely accepted that ...

Desaturation Patterns Versus Apnea Hypopnea Index: Which is More Reliable?

by Dr. Jagdeep Bijwadia Obstructive sleep apnea is a significant and common medical disorder characterized by recurrent total or partial pharyngeal collapse causing temporary upper ...

Addressing Poor Sleep May Help Heart Health

by Lee A. Surkin, MD, FACC, FCCP, FASNC, FAASM The heart is the key element of the circulatory system which makes sure that all the ...

Keeping Up

Steve Carstensen, DDSDiplomate, American Board ofDental Sleep Medicine The only way to stop it is to willingly not pay attention. The problem is, readers of ...

Helping Your Community with WatchPAT® ONE

by Glennine Varga It was my fourth day on the job and my last day of training – Thursday, February 27, 2020, Atlanta. Most of ...

Dental Continuing Education

Mitochondrial Dysfunction Acquired from Sleep Related Breathing Disorders is the Cause of Most Non-Communicable Diseases

by Dr. Steve Lamberg Wouldn’t you love a deeper understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of sleep related breathing disorders “SRBD” and how they cause so ...

Restless Legs Syndrome

by Zhu Zhu, MD, PhD; Saniya Pervin, MBBS; and Daniel O. Lee, MD, FAAN, FAASM Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common sensorimotor neurological disorder ...

Interarch Jaw Registration Devices for Oral Sleep Appliances: Consequences of Anterior vs. Posterior Stabilization

by Allen J. Moses, DDS Introductory Anatomy and Kinetics Human beings are the only mammals to have a shared foodway and airway. As a result, ...

Epigenetics and Sleep Disordered Breathing

by Amalia A. Geller, MD Child neurologists have much exposure to many different types of genetic conditions that lead to sleep-disordered breathing. For many years, ...

Sleep Related Breathing Disorders During Pregnancy: The Impact of Intervention on Maternal and Fetal Health Outcomes

by Steve Lamberg, DDS, D.ABDSM     Ample evidence exists showing Sleep Related Breathing Disorders or SRBD, have a negative impact on maternal and fetal outcomes. A ...

Mastering the Myo Merge: The Importance and Essentials in Implementation in the Dental Office

by Karese Laguerre, RDH Sleep and airway focused dentistry have been estimated to be a $6 billion global industry and has seen rapid growth since ...

Technology: Dental Sleep’s Gatekeeper to Boost Case Acceptance and Increase Efficiency

by Jason Doucette, DMD, D.ABDSM, and Jeff Rodgers, DMD, D.ABDSM Technology continues to revolutionize the practice of dental sleep medicine (DSM). Various instruments, software, and ...

Physician-Dentist Collaboration: A Call to Arms for Allied Troops

by John Viviano, DDS, D.ABDSM, and John Bouzis, DDS Broken. This one word describes the current model for identifying, diagnosing, and treating sleep disordered breathing ...

Home Sleep Testing, Telemedicine, and the Impact on Dental Sleep Practices

by Jagdeep Bijwadia, MD and Greg Manning, DDS Data shared at the 2018 American Thoracic Society International Conference indicated sleep apnea prevalence to be just ...

Oral Appliance Therapy; The Definition of Effectiveness

A debate rages. Neither side is willing to listen to the other or objectively evaluate the data. The polarization intensifies and each side is becoming ...

ACEs, Integrative Medicine, and the Mind Body Connection

Why Dental Sleep Practitioners Must Take a Seat at This Table by Sunita Merriman, DDS ”What is spoken of as a clinical picture is not just a ...

Get with the Program: Dental Sleep Medicine and Electronic Medical Records

by Richard B. Drake, DDS, D.ABDSM, and George S. “Gy” Yatros, DMD, D.ABDSM “It has become necessary to develop medicine as a cooperative science; the ...

Clinical Spotlight

Management of Temporomandibular Disorders with Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy

by Zareth Jana Hernández, DMD Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are debilitating conditions that may cause pain, dysfunction, and impaired quality of life.1 TMD patients may present with dysfunctional breathing, chewing, and ...

Clinician Spotlight

The Duck Wrangler

DSP interview with Rose Nierman Rose Nierman has been the go-to source for dentists getting paid for new services since before the first mandibular advancement devices hit the market. She ...

Corporate Spotlights

Who We Are: 3DISC

Founded in 2007, 3DISC started as an R&D company but quickly matured into an agile American manufacturer and global provider of digital imaging solutions for dental practices. Fourteen years later, ...

Inside The Lab

Laser Sintering New Life into Your Sleep Appliances

Great Lakes Dental Technologies has fabricated sleep appliances for over 25 years. In that time, fabrication techniques have evolved to take advantage of traditional materials such as acrylic and wires. ...

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