Welcome to Dental Sleep Practice
A dental journal and sleep apnea publication
Current Issue
Out of Breath – A Documentary Feature Film
by Lisa Moler There are millions of people worldwide who are not aware that they are suffering from OSA, never mind that there are treatments ...
Changes in Home Sleep Testing Technology
by Dr. Jagdeep Bijwadia Polysomnography remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of sleep apnea and other sleep disorders. Most published research has relied on ...
Nasal Airway Obstruction and Precision Oral Appliance Therapy in the Treatment of OSA
by Edward T. Sall, MD, DDS, MBA While there has been increased acceptance of Mandibular Advancement Splints (MAS) in the treatment of OSA, physicians have ...
Coaching and Consulting Can Help You Offer Services for Pain and Sleep
Session 2 of our Pain and Sleep Mini Residency. For every 100 people with obstructive sleep apnea, 80 don’t even know they have the condition. ...
Dr. Robert Rogers
The American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year. To recognize this milestone, DSP called up the dentist who began it ...
Defining the Next Generation in Oral Appliance Therapy
There are many appliances from which to choose for Oral Appliance Therapy (OAT) for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Unfortunately, the vast majority ...
Building a Customized Educational Pediatric SDB Program for Your Practice
8-month treatment with HealthyStart’s Class III Appliance. Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) is an area seeing tremendous growth for the dental profession. As a dentist, it ...
Snoring and Sleep Apnea Treatment Made Easy with Glidewell
Glidewell makes building your sleep practice easier than ever before. The provisional treatment protocol — along with the Silent Nite® Sleep Appliance — will help ...
Global Solution to Global Problems: We Are Going Worldwide
by Shibani Sahni, BDS, PGD, MMSc, and Leopoldo P. Correa, BDS, MS, D.ABDSM It is estimated that approximately 1 billion people around the globe ...
AADSM Special Section
Accu-Fit™ – An Innovative Liner That Makes a Difference in Your Sleep Devices Do you spend too much time trying to get your patients sleep ...
Influencers making ‘SHIFT’ Happen
ProSomnus Medical and Dental Scientific Leadership Drs. Edward Sall, Shouresh Charkhandeh, Mark Murphy, and John Remmers by Len Liptak, ProSomnus Co-founder and CEO, and Mark ...
Lieutenant Colonel Scott Williams, MD
Tell us about yourself. Firstly, I wanted to thank DSP for inviting me to be part of the editorial board. I am an active duty ...
Dental Continuing Education
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 ...
Telemedicine: It’s About Time
by Jagdeep Bijwadia, MD, MBA, D.ABDSM Telemedicine has experienced accelerated growth and as evidenced by the current COVID-19 crisis, it is a powerful resource that ...
Bruxism & Sleep Disturbed Breathing: A Guide to Critical Thinking about Empiricism, Science, Bruxism, and Sleep
by Barry Glassman, DMD, and Don Malizia, DDS Dentistry’s Empirical History Restorative dentistry has built institutions based on empirical evidence. Unfortunately, scientific evidence has not ...
An Ounce of Prevention: Avoiding Oral Appliance Therapy Related Side Effects
An Ounce of Prevention: Avoiding Oral Appliance Therapy Related Side Effects by Jamison Spencer, DMD, MS With serious systemic health consequences being clearly linked with ...
Special Section – Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders: The Role of the Dentist
Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders: The Role of the Dentist by Jeffrey Cole, DDS President, American Dental Association An ADA Perspective In 2017, the American Dental Association ...
Clinical Spotlight
Which One is the Best?
by Lauren Ballinger, DDS I am frequently asked by colleagues interested in incorporating early airway focused treatment into their practice, “should I use Myobrace, Healthy Start, or some other myofunctional ...
Clinician Spotlight
Dr. Robert Rogers
The American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year. To recognize this milestone, DSP called up the dentist who began it all, Dr. Robert Rogers. DSP: ...
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. ...
