At Ben-Pat Institute, we are excited about our comprehensive orofacial pain, TMD and dental sleep medicine program. This program is aimed at providing practicing dentists with hands-on clinical experience [...]
In the first official joint guideline from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM), oral appliance therapy is recommended for the [...]
If treatment of sleep apnea occurs immediately after a stroke or mini-stroke, new research shows that it may improve patients’ neurological symptoms and daily functioning. More than 20 million [...]
Managing diabetes requires a "day-in, day-out" effort to control the factors that affect blood sugar levels. And what might make it even more difficult to manage symptoms is if [...]
We understand how successful treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can be. However, we need to pay attention to the potential side effects from long-term oral appliance use. If [...]
In a recent study from the journal Sleep Medicine researchers looked at the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with an oral appliance (OA). There is currently no gold [...]
It’s an important question that many of us continue to wonder about - why aren’t more sleep physicians recommending oral appliances for sleep apnea? Well, to begin with, there [...]
This is important to think about: We are lying to ourselves if we don’t embrace alternative therapies other than continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for patients with sleep apnea. [...]
I have some exciting news to share! The sleep apnea device market has a bright future and that’s great news for us dentists! So, what’s the outlook? Well, by [...]
We never needed further proof of the success of oral appliance therapy, but it doesn’t hurt to hear more about it and reaffirm its input. In this recent study, [...]
