Dental Management of Sleep Disorders

Dental Management of Sleep Disorders focuses on the dentist s role in treating patients with sleep problems, chiefly sleep disordered breathing and bruxism. A practical clinical book, Dental Management of Sleep Disorders highlights the background to these problems, discusses the dentist s role in their diagnosis and treatment, and outlines clinical strategies and guidance. The book features a full discussion of the use of appliances, an overview of current treatment modalities, and investigates the relationship of sleep disorders to dental and orofacial causes.

Autorentext

Dr. Ronald Attanasio, DDS, MSEd, MS is Professor and
Director of the TMD and Orofacial Pain Clinic at the University of
Nebraska Medical Center-College of Dentistry in Lincoln, Nebraska.
He is past President of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain, and
his faculty practice at the College focuses on TMD, orofacial pain,
and sleep related breathing disorders.

Dr. Dennis R. Bailey, DDS is a diplomate of the American
Board of Orofacial Pain and past President of the Academy Dental
Sleep Medicine. His private practice focuses on sleep apnea,
snoring, TMD, and sleep disorders in adults and children.

Klappentext
Dental Management of Sleep Disorders is the first text of its kind to focus on the dentist's role in treating patients with sleep related breathing disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea, sleep bruxism, and snoring. A practical clinical book, Dental Management of Sleep Disorders highlights the background to these problems, discusses the dentist's role in their diagnosis and treatment, and outlines clinical strategies and guidance. The book features a full discussion of the use of oral appliances, an overview of current treatment modalities, and investigates the relationship of sleep related breathing disorders to dental and orofacial causes. Organized to facilitate user-friendliness, the book begins with an overview of sleep medicine, providing the reader with a solid foundation in the human sleep cycle, classification of sleep disorders, and related medical and dental conditions. Subsequent chapters highlight practical application in the dental setting, including proper evaluation and imaging for sleep related breathing disorders and instruction for both surgical and non-surgical treatments.

Key Features

• Provides basic foundational knowledge including physiology and pathophysiology of sleep related breathing disorders
• Contextualizes the dentist's role as a part of the medical team
• Discusses the full range of medical and dental treatment approaches to the most common sleep related breathing disorders
• Includes detailed discussion of clinical applicability of oral appliance therapy

Zusammenfassung
Dental Management of Sleep Disorders focuses on the dentist's role in treating patients with sleep problems, chiefly sleep disordered breathing and bruxism. A practical clinical book, Dental Management of Sleep Disorders highlights the background to these problems, discusses the dentist's role in their diagnosis and treatment, and outlines clinical strategies and guidance. The book features a full discussion of the use of appliances, an overview of current treatment modalities, and investigates the relationship of sleep disorders to dental and orofacial causes.

Inhalt

Preface.

Section 1 OVERVIEW OF SLEEP MEDICINE.

1. Impact of sleep disorders on society.

2. Human sleep.

3. Classification of sleep disorders.

4. Pediatrics and sleep-related breathing disorders

5 Medical and dental conditions related to sleep-related
breathing disorders

Section 2 ASSESSMENT OF THE SLEEP-RELATED BREATHING DISORDER
PATIENT.

6. Sleep assessment/studies.

7. Evaluation by the dentist.

8. Imaging for sleep-related breathing disorders.

Section 3 MANAGEMENT OF THE SLEEP-RELATED BREATHING DISORDER
PATIENT.

9. Positive airway pressure therapy for sleep-related breathing
   disorders.

10. Surgical treatment for sleep-related breathing
    disorders.

11. Oral appliance therapy for sleep-related breathing
    disorders.

APPENDICES.

Appendix 1: Abbreviations for sleep medicine.

Appendix 2: Glossary of terms for sleep medicine.

Index.