B. Gail Denko, DMD PC, Dental Sleep Medicine. Specializing in the treatment of patients with snoring and obstructive sleep apnea.
“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”
Emile M. Ciora
Seminal literature for providers and medical insurers:
Seminal literature for providers and medical insurers:
Practice Parameters developed by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- Practice parameters for the treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea with oral appliances (1995)
- Oral Appliances for treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea: a review (1995)
- Measuring agreement between diagnostic devices (2003)
- Standard of practice committee: practice parameters for the indication of PSG and related procedures. (1997)
- Practice parameters for the use of portable monitoring devices in the investigation of suspected obstructive sleep apnea in adults
- Efficacy of surgical modifications of the upper airway (1996)
For other practice parameters developed by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, you are urged to go to their website: www.AASMnet.org
Epidemiology of Obstructive Sleep Apnea:
• Epidemiology and natural history of obstructive sleep apnea.
Redline and Young, 1993
• Epidemiology of obstructive sleep apnea: a population health perspective.
Young, et al 2002
• Epidemiology of OSA: a population health perspective:
Young, T et al AJRCCM 2002 Free text available
• Risk factors for obstructive sleep apnea in adults
Young, et al 2004
• Menopausal status and sleep disordered breathing in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study
Young et al 2003
• Pathophysiology of upper airway obstruction: a developmental perspective
Arens, et al, Sleep 2004 Aug 1;27(5):997-1019
Oral Appliance Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea:
• Treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea with mandibular appliances: a review.
Cistulli, et al 2004
• Efficacy and co-morbidity of oral appliances in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea: a systematic review.
Hoekema, et al 2004
• Oral Appliances for obstructive sleep apnea. Cochrane Data Base systematic review
2004 Lim et al
• A review of oral devices in the treatment of habitual snoring and obstructive sleep apnea.
Lindman and Bondemark 2001
Individual articles on oral appliance therapy
Marklund, et al 2004
• A mandibular protruding device in obstructive sleep apnea and snoring.
Frannson A 2003
• A mandibular protruding device in obstructive sleep apnea and snoring.
Frannson A 2003
Side-Effects of Oral devices used to treat obstructive sleep apnea:
Robertson et al 2003
Frannson A 2002
• Orthodontic side-effects of mandibular advancement devices during treatment of snoring and sleep apnea.
• Marklund, et al 2001
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• Effects and Adverse events of a dental appliance for treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
Tegelberg, et al Swed Dent J., 1999;23 (4): 117-26
• A prospective randomized study of a dental appliance compared with uvulopalatopharyngoplasty in the treatment of OSA
Wilhelmsson, et al Acta Otolaryngol 1999;119(4): 503-9
Articles on Sleep that may relate to oral appliances:
• Sleep Disorders during pregnancy Pien and Schwab 2004
Pediatrics:
• Prevalence and risk factors for sleep-disordered breathing in 8-11 year old children; association with race and prematurity.
Rosen, et al, J. Pediatr. 2003 Dec114(6):1640-8
Dentists play an important role in the team approach to the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
Physicians, dentists, psychologists, and respiratory therapists all pool their knowledge to treat each patient appropriately and effectively.
Dentists who are specifically trained in aspects of sleep medicine and have a command of multiple appliance modalities are of great help to physicians in treating patients with sleep disordered breathing problems.
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