Blog List – Modern
Trucking industry reacts to Truck Crash research
ASBA members tent to spend a great deal of time reviewing literature to support clinical and practice management decisions. There is a great deal of peer reviewed information that guides the field of sleep disordered breathing. ASBA Diplomates are very much aware of how rigours of reading and unders...
Feds seek input for DOT Sleep Apnea Screening Guidelines
ASBA Members are participating in this effort to establish guidelines for sleep diagnosis and therapy that will provide a standard for DOT and providers of care throughout the United States. There has been an effort over the last several years to establish some federal standards that would give some...
ASBA Members supporting NFLPA 2016 Former Players Conference
I was invited by David Gergen Executive Director of the American Sleep and Breathing Academy (ASBA) to attend the NFLPA 2016 Former Players Convention. I was there to demonstrate the value of home sleep testing in evaluating sleep disordered breathing using the Nox T3 by Carefusion. This is the seco...
Medicare and Private insurers raise rates for Sleep Apnea Dentistry
Sleep therapy continues to receive scrutiny by regulators and payors. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have been monitoring patient outcomes and clinical yield for patients. There has been no formal announcement as to their findings however CPAP reimbursement continues to be cut while Oral Applianc...
Sleep Apnea Treatment- The Canadian Experience
So, you’re tired of feeling tired or hearing from your spouse about your snoring. You go to your family physician, which refers you to a Sleep Specialist. After the Sleep Study results are available you are told that you stop breathing in your sleep 30 times an hour, something that would concern mos...
ASTHMA a Predictor of CHRONIC MIGRAINE ATTACKS
Pre-existing asthma may be a strong predictor of future chronic migraine attacks in individuals experiencing occasional migraine headaches, according to researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC), Montefiore Headache Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Vedanta Research. The f...
Public Awareness Provides Patients for ASBA Diplomates
David Gergen President of the ProPlayer Health alliance and executive director of the American sleep and breathing academy lead the team to victory last Tuesday night in Phoenix Arizona. Initially the idea of NFL football, Sleep Apnea and the Phoenix Police foundation don’t seem to fit together very...
Tips and Tricks for Implementation of Sleep Dentistry into your Practice
I have been attending entry level Dental CE courses for snoring and sleep apnea for over 20 years. It has always been fascinating to me that a dentist can take hundreds of hours of course hours but never really manage to get Sleep Apnea Dentistry implemented into his or her practice. This is an all ...