Just over the past year or so, I’ve become more interested in sleep apnea and the significant impacts it can have on our patients’ quality of life. As I started looking into it more, it became something that I felt really passionate about and it just kept growing and developing. Once you understand what you need to look for, you realize there are a lot of patients who …
Read MoreAt one point, I was exposed to the physiology of obstructive sleep apnea and how that tied into what I was seeing with patients in my practice. I started to become more and more interested in how occlusion interplays with breathing, as well as posture and muscle balance. I wanted to help my patients deal with this physiologic stress and strain in their body, both during the day and …
Read MoreI was always confident in the benefits of oral appliance therapy, but I knew deep down that some patients weren’t going to respond as well as we’d hoped, and I didn’t always know if we had the appliance at the right position. We could only go by how the patient felt, and while some patients would say they felt 100% better and were clear responders, others would …
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