by Jagdeep Bijwadia, MD, MBA, DABSM, and Kyle Miko, CRT/CSE Telemedicine is becoming an increasingly important part of healthcare. The Department of Health and Human Services estimated that in 2018, 60% of all health care facilities were using some form […]
Read ArticleBehavioral Treatment of Sleep Problems for Orofacial Pain Patients
by Joshua R. Oltmanns and Charles R. Carlson Orofacial pain often co-occurs with problems falling asleep, maintaining sleep, and waking too early that cause impairment in daytime functioning (Carlson et al., 1998; Porto et al., 2011). These problems are captured […]
Read ArticleOSA – Dentist and Sleep Physician Working Together
by Teresa E. Jacobs, MD Patients enter the evaluation for sleep apnea from four primary sources: subjective symptoms, complaints of a bed partner, concerns of a doctor, or the observations of a dentist. Patients put off coming in for evaluation […]
Read ArticleImproving Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Oral Appliance Therapy – A Sleep Physician’s Perspective by Jonathan S. Lown, MD, D.ABIM
The US and global impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is staggering. An estimated 52 million Americans have sleep disordered breathing, with 1 in 5 having mild apnea, and 1 in 15 having moderate to severe apnea. To quote Dr. […]
Read ArticleThe Precision Medicine Paradigm for Dental Sleep Medicine
True partnership between medicine and dentistry must exist if we are to make any headway treating the exponential increase in breathing disordered sleep.
Read ArticlePushing Air or Pulling the Jaw: Which is better for which patient?
Patients with OSA will be provided therapeutic options, and for many, a simple oral appliance will be more effective therapy than pushing air.
Read ArticleEeny Meeny Miny Moe: Selecting an Appropriate Appliance for Your Patients
by David B Schwartz, DDS, D.ABDSM When it comes to ice cream flavors I like chocolate, my wife likes vanilla, my kids like mint chip, you get the point. We have many choices in everything that we do in life […]
Read ArticleWhere Do We Start?
by Robert C. Williams, DDS, FAGD You just took a course in “Treating Sleep Apnea in the Dental Practice” and you are ready to start. Your patient is ready to start. Start where? You learned all kinds of terms and […]
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