Why Should Dentists Be Involved
in Treating Sleep Apnea?

Why Should Dentists be Involved in Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea or generally speaking Sleep Related Breathing Problems?

Here is the Reason Why,

In a population of General Dental Patients, people coming in Monday morning 32%, 9% of men and 19% of plus of minus of women are going to have undiagnosed sleep related breathing problems.

There is no formal training in Medical School or in Dental School for that matter, substantial training in diagnosing and treating, sleep disturb breathing problems.

That’s why about 2% of people of a group of 100 are referred from the general medical and dental practice.

You are going to see people all day long on this coming Monday with breathing problems that are causing them to brux their teeth, have TMJ problems, have elevated blood pressure, and blood sugar, have anxiety, and depression, irritable valves, Fibromyalgia and on and on.

We have an opportunity because we can look in that mouth and almost instantly have a sense if they are at risk or not for sleep breathing problems.

I can’t think of a more important ting you can do as a clinician is to get on board with helping to assist the physician in the diagnoses and the management of sleep related breathing disorders.