Dental Sleep Medicine
Dental sleep medicine is an area of dental practice that center around the use of oral appliance therapy to treat sleep-disordered breathing, including snoring and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Dental practitioners cooperate with doctors to distinguish the best treatment for every patient. Dental Sleep Medicine is a specialty within general dentistry. Board-certified sleep medicine dentists are specially trained to use oral appliance therapy (OAT) to help treat certain sleep disorders or disordered behavior, most notably, snoring and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
An oral apparatus for snoring or OSA is a medical device you wear in your mouth when you rest. A qualified dental specialist would fit you for a rest apnea mouthguard like apparatus that slides over your teeth and pulls your lower jaw forward slightly, making extra room at the back of your throat for the tongue and free soft tissue, which can here and there cause airway obstructions that stop you from breathing normally.
Dental Research and Management is an open access dentistry journal which publishes Research/Review/Mini-Review/Short communication/Case Reports related to Dentistry. The Journal follows the rapid review process and covers the topics related to dentistry
PDF
