See if this sounds familiar: A young-50’s male, with a snoring history that includes his children begging for separate hotel rooms during family trips so they could get some sleep. The family says they considered Dad’s snoring to be funny and annoying, but not dangerous. The man has been observed falling asleep at his keyboard in the afternoon, and admits to being awakened by th … [Read more...]
Don’t Call It Early Orthodontics!
DSP Profiles Dr. Kevin Boyd and Dr. Janet Pannaralla Craniofacial Mandibular Respiratory Morphology. Chances are, you’ve not seen those words together before. If you want to make a real difference in your community health, Drs. Boyd and Pannaralla think those words are maybe the most powerful phrase you can know. DSP had a chance to interview these inspiring p … [Read more...]
New Center for Pain and Sleep Opens in Dallas
Texas A&M University College of Dentistry has opened a new Facial Pain and Sleep Medicine center headed by Steven Bender, DDS. One of the first such centers in a dental school in the country, Dr. Bender has big ideas for how to change dentistry’s impact on whole person health. DSP recently sat down with Dr. Bender to learn more. DSP: Tell me how this all got started, Steve … [Read more...]
Putting It All Together by Dr. Dale Sorenson
Imagine how boring your dental practice would be if all our patients were the same. No patient would present with an array of problems that took some time to sort out or encouraged us to collaborate with colleagues, expanding that usual circle of dentists to include physicians of many disciplines. We’d never grow or learn through each patient experience and none of them would h … [Read more...]
ASBA Dental Division – A Breath of Fresh Air
Sleep Apnea Dentistry has been characterized as the greatest opportunity for dentistry, post caries epidemic, since tooth whitening. The benefit to the patient is clear – Oral Appliance Therapy is an effective, non-invasive, and inexpensive treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Dentists are seen more and more as part of the medical community by assisting in providing early d … [Read more...]
DSP Interview with Dr. Jamison Spencer
Creating Exceptional Experiences – The DSP Interview with Dr. Jonathan Parker
How did you learn to provide sleep services in your practice? Did you find the instructor at the courses you took inspiring? Did you see her/him as someone you could emulate? Over a career, dentists take hundreds of hours of education from dozens of instructors. How many do you remember? Have you made a difference in your patient’s lives because of what you learned? Chances a … [Read more...]
Driven to Help the World Sleep
An Interview with W. Keith Thornton, DDS Editor’s Introduction Dr. W. Keith Thornton is a third generation dentist who now limits his practice to the treatment of sleep disordered breathing, airway management during anesthesia, and temporomandibular disorders. He has over 75 US and foreign patents for oral appliances, CPAP masks, and combination oral appliance mask int … [Read more...]
Jeffory J. Wyscarver, RPSGT
Interviewed by Michael C. DiTolla, DDS, FAGD Dr. Michael DiTolla: Many of our readers see the term “sleep bruxism” and wonder what this is? Jeff Wyscarver: The beginning for me with regards to tackling sleep bruxism came when I started talking to a number of dentists and notable pain clinic specialists who had a desire to be able to measure jaw activity while a patient sle … [Read more...]
