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Blog List – Modern

Farm Animal Exposure Reduces Childhood Asthma 52%

Children who are raised in households with dogs or farm animals during their first year of life may have a lower risk of asthma a few years later, a new study suggests. In the study, the researchers looked at early exposure to dogs and farm animals and the<a href=”http://www.livescience.com...Read More

American Sleep and Breathing Academy “Study Club” redefines successful dental sleep medicine weekend courses!

November 11th 2015, from the ASBA PEORIA, Arizona, November 11th 2015 – One of the fastest growing areas in dentistry, dental sleep medicine is also a source of annoyance and deflated expectations for a lot of Dentists who have invested in courses and equipment , only to leave with no clear plan of ...Read More

POSITIONAL APNEA IN A 73-YEAR OLD MALE WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

This is the case of a 73-year old male who was diagnosed by the local heart institute with atrial fibrillation. The patient was under outpatient care of both a cardiologist and family doctor.Bed partner interview did not report a history of snoring nor any history of breathing difficulties during th...Read More

Case Presentation: Catching central sleep apnea during titrations of an oral sleep appliance

By Mark  Collins, DDS  and James Collins Abstract Titration is often the most difficult component of dental sleep medicine and the methods used to verify titration vary between practitioners. However, the end results of titration should maximize the relief of subjective symptoms while striving to op...Read More

Multidisciplinary Is Not a Dirty Word

We’re dentists; We went to dental school. We were told that we would become “physicians of the oral cavity,” and then we. spent four years learning to become tooth and gum doctors. We graduated and unlike our friends in medical school, who were appropriately prepared and trained fo...Read More

Continuing Education from the Back of the Room

As the clinical director of a facility Accredited by the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, I attended a course provided by a local university for primary care physicians, entitled: Current Management of Sleep Disorders: A Comprehensive Update There was not much on the flyer regarding oral a...Read More

Sleep Disorders Dentistry: A New Age for Dentistry

Dentistry experienced a meaningful paradigm shift regarding patient management, circa the mid 1970’s. This shift took approximately a decade, and by the mid 1980’s, it was mostly complete. I am talking about the introduction of “Soft Tissue Management” (STM) programs, which transformed d...Read More

Consensus on Dealing with Oral Appliance Side Effects

(Steve Carstensen, Tim Mickiewicz, Barry Glassman, Gina Pepitone-Mattiello, Les Priemer, Mark Collins, Shouresh Charkhandeh, Erin Elliott, Kent Smith, Ken Luco,  John Viviano, Steve Lamberg, David Nueber, Tony Soileau)   The newly formed LinkedIn Discussion Group, “SleepDisordersDentistry” has ...Read More