Just think about leaving four ordinary light bulbs lit all night, night after night, for the rest of your life. You would go to great lengths to avoid the expense and the carbon emissions associated with such energy consumption. Surprise! That’s the energy cost of standard treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, CPAP. Should we ignore this […]
Many healthcare professionals working in the field of sleep apnea are sensitive to the patient’s needs and optimize therapy for OSA. While others strongly advocate for a particular modality, be it surgery, CPAP or oral appliance therapy (OAT). A unilateral single treatment approach is, in my opinion, a regrettable circumstance, that reflects the immaturity of […]
The recent review article, “Oral Appliance Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Update” by Sutherland K; Vanderveken OM; Tsuda H; Marklund M; Gagnadoux F; Kushida CA; Cistulli PA in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2014, pp. 215-227) is a landmark in the field. The review […]
We all know that sleep apnea is one of the most common, chronic, non-communicable diseases in industrialized societies. This makes it a big medical problem, comparable in size to diabetes and hypertension. Like these other two, sleep apnea has significant long term cardiovascular risks. In some sense, sleep apnea poses more formidable medical difficulties than […]
