oral appliance

Some people benefit from various kinds of oral appliances to keep the airway open during sleep.

Oral appliances have a mixed success rate in treating sleep apnea.

Oral Appliances should be custom made by a dentist with training in dental sleep medicine.

Plastic oral appliances, fitted by a dentist, are typically used to prevent damage.

Various oral appliances have been designed to increase airflow by repositioning structures in the mouth.

Another treatment is a custom fitted oral appliance.

The elastics hook on the patient's braces or other such suitable oral appliance.

An oral appliance is a device that a patient will wear for a certain period of time to treat various orofacial disorders.

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A home sleep test also may be used to evaluate your response to some sleep apnea treatments, including oral appliances, surgery, and weight loss.

Perform routine oral mucosal care procedures 3 to 4 times a day with the oral appliances out of the mouth.

Some oral appliances restrict tongue movement in order to prevent the tongue from blocking the airway.

General dentists can fabricate an oral appliance.

Oral appliances.

Practice parameters for the treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea with oral appliances: An update for 2005.

Oral appliances to protrude the tongue and mandible (jaw) forward are effective in reducing the airway resistance.

Sometimes, if the grinding is excessive, have a pediatric dentist evaluate your son to see if an oral appliance or retainer might help.

The FDA has approved only 16 types of oral appliances for the treatment of sleep apnea.

A dentist or orthodontist can specially make a mouthpiece or oral appliance to ease mild sleep apnea.

A sleep apnea oral appliance is typically molded to fit a particular patient's teeth by a dentist specializing in treating sleep disorders.

Oral appliance therapy (OAT) is usually successful in patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea.

Oral appliance therapy is less effective than CPAP, but is more 'user friendly'.

The association, in its journal Sleep, cautioned that oral appliances can sometimes aggravate temporomandibular joint disease or cause dental misalignment or discomfort.

In such individuals, closure of the cleft palate - whether by surgery or by a temporary oral appliance, can cause the onset of obstruction.

Some people are helped by special pillows or devices that keep them from sleeping on their backs, or oral appliances to keep the airway open during sleep.