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Researchers in Brazil have found that treating patients who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) dramatically reduces early indications of atherosclerosis in just months, linking OSA directly to the hardening or narrowing of the arteries. Until now, ...
We specialize in treating snoring and sleep apnea using the main CPAP alternative, oral appliance therapy (OAT).
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1. Apparatus for treating obstructive sleep apnea, the apparatus comprising: a tethering device comprising: an elastic filament having a distal end and a proximal end; and a flexible memory head mounted to the distal end of the elastic filament. 2. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the...
Obstructive sleep apnea, which causes people to briefly stop breathing while asleep, affects an estimated 5 percent of the population, not including the many more who don't even realize they suffer from the disorder. Patients are sometimes treated with a machine that blows air into the patient'...
Surgical procedures have also been proposed and/or practiced for the treatment of moderate to severe sleep apnea. Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (“UPPP”) is a surgical procedure used to treat obstructive sleep apnea. In UPPP, any remaining tonsillar tissue and a portion of the soft palate is rem...
This program presents an excellent introduction to evidence-based Dental Sleep Medicine and is designed to prepare dentists and their teams to confidently identify, refer, and help co-manage patients with snoring and the potentially deadly effects of obstructive sleep apnea. Participants will have the...
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome(OSAHS) is a kind of disease with multiple causes. Anatomical abnormalityof the upper airway was seemed as the main cause in most of the patients with OSAHS. Surgery of upper airway has become one important treatment method for OSAHS. This article has giv...
Apparatus and method for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea Providing an apparatus used to diagnose apnea exists obstructive sleep in a patient, while the patient is awake, the apparatus, measurement of the patient's breathing obtained during the breathing cycle multiple by the patient is convert......