The value of a good working relationship with your dental lab cannot be overestimated. Long before I started treating Dental Sleep Medicine patients, I became aware that a lab could make or break a dental practice. In the past for me, it was crowns, bridges, night guards and removable prosthetics. Now it’s Oral Appliances for Sleep Apnea and Snoring. However, what I learned in t … [Read more...]
Retrofitting Crowns Under Sleep Appliances
Using Crown and Bridge Technology in the Dental Sleep World The relationship patients have with their sleep appliances is well documented. Patients have come to rely on their particular appliance and when they need a crown made, they are hesitant to give up their appliance, let alone have a new one made. In some cases, dentists can adjust the existing appliance to fit the … [Read more...]
The value of intraoral scanning for your sleep appliances What you should know…
Are intraoral scans right for my practice – Why not?” This technology is moving so fast what seemed unbelievable 2-3 years ago is standard practice in many offices and labs today. Why should you consider intraoral scans if you haven’t yet? It’s not the future – it’s the present! Why should I change? Customers tell us, “The appliance fit from my digital order submissions … [Read more...]
Oral Sleep Appliance Management, Simplified!
The DynaFlex Dorsal® Accu-Fit Appliance Could your sleep practice keep up with 500% growth? According to the American Sleep Apnea Association, 22 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea with the vast majority remaining undiagnosed. Frost & Sullivan, a leading consulting and market research firm, anticipate the market for oral appliances will double by the year 2020, with … [Read more...]
Magic Happens at the Dental Lab
When the boxes are opened, they may at first only seem to hold impressions and bites. What’s really there are years of longer life, improved health, lower medical expenses, and vastly improved quality of life for many people in each box. It’s the lab professionals who create medical devices that help people breathe better at night from the potential from what’s dropped off by Fe … [Read more...]
3D Imaging for Better Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Airway and TMD
Great Lakes Orthodontics
Helping dentists navigate the waters of dental sleep medicine Among the clinicians, innovators, and scientists who help establish dental sleep medicine are the laboratory professionals who have stood with the clinicians from the first days. Christina LaJoie and her company Great Lakes Orthodontics have been there from the beginning. When I reflect back over my 24 years … [Read more...]
Pro NFL Players Tackle Sleep Apnea
In recent years, awareness of the potentially life-threatening effects of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has begun to rise, but there’s still widespread confusion about who can be affected by the disorder. Most of those who are aware of the dangers of OSA believe that it affects only overweight and unhealthy people, while many otherwise healthy people go on without ever being d … [Read more...]
