For our medical colleagues.

Let the data speak.

Additional literature available on request.

We look forward to discussing a collaborative approach to the treatment of Sleep Related Breathing Disorders.

Clinical Practice Guidelines for treating physicians:

 

Recommendations for treating physicians including:

  1. Oral appliance therapy (OAT) over no therapy for primary snoring.

  2. Oral appliance therapy over no therapy for CPAP intolerant Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients.

  3. Oral appliance therapy over no therapy for patient preference.

Comparison of Oral Appliance Therapy (OAT) vs. CPAP

 

“Mounting evidence suggests that OAT and CPAP treatment are comparatively effective in improving health outcomes, even in more severe OSA, presumably due to greater overall usage of the OAT device compared to CPAP”

Compliance with Oral Appliance Therapy

 

One-year follow-up: 89% of the oral appliance users were still “regular users” with overall rate of appliance use of 6.4 ± 1.7 h per night

Outward symptoms of childhood sleep related breathing disorders.

 

“We should also emphasize that the implications of OSA in children, are quite broad in scope and rather complex. If left untreated, or alternatively if treated late, pediatric OSA may lead to substantial morbidity that affects multiple target organs and systems, and such morbidity may not be completely reversible with appropriate treatment.”

Clinical presentation includes: neurobehavioral issues, cardiovascular complications, reduced quality of life, T2DM and growth impairment.

Maxillary Expansion can address sleep related breathing disorders in children.

 

“Pediatric OSA in non-obese children is a disorder of oral-facial growth.”

“Several studies have shown that [rapid maxillary expansions] have a clear impact on pediatric OSA and may resolve the residual symptomatology seen in the post-adenotonsillectomy patients.”

“When a high and narrow hard palate was noted..hypotonia was also present and sleep disordered breathing was noted.”