Welcome to Dental Sleep Practice
A dental journal and sleep apnea publication
Current Issue
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. ...
