New to sleep?
Starting out in dental sleep medicine, here’s your guide.
What is Sleep-Disordered Breathing?
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) describe a group of disorders characterized by abnormalities of the respiratory pattern or ventilation during sleep.
Starting Out in Dental Sleep Medicine?
The scale of the opportunity to improve lives with oral appliance therapy (OAT) is considerable.
What is Sleep Bruxism?
Sleep bruxism is a parafunction in which the masticatory muscle activates involuntarily during sleep. Sleep bruxism can be diagnosed in a number of ways.
Useful Resources
Discover our useful resources including sleep medicine learned societies, recommended reading and all our references.
The Opportunity
The scale of the opportunity to improve lives with oral appliance therapy (OAT) is considerable:
CPAP non-compliant
50% of patients receiving CPAP treatment for OSA are non-compliant after 6 months and 83% are non-compliant after 5 years.5
Half of adults snore
Around half of adults snore, many of them habitually.1 Untreated snorers often develop OSA.
Untreated OSA
Untreated OSA causes daytime drowsiness and increases risk of high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, stroke and type 2 diabetes.3
Oral appliances opportunity
Oral appliances are a first-line treatment for snoring and mild to moderate OSA and a second-line treatment for severe OSA when CPAP is contraindicated or can’t be tolerated.8,9
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