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OSA Doesn’t Discriminate
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Understanding gender-specific factors can improve health outcomes for women With nearly 30 million Americans suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and an estimated 80% of cases remaining undiagnosed,1 this sleep breathing disorder is a deadly disease of epidemic proportions. More people suffer from OSA than Diabetes.
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Oral Appliance Efficacy – Time for Augmented Intelligence!
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Pankaj Singh, DDS, MD, does not mince words when assessing the knowledge levels of his dental colleagues. Even dentists who know the scope of oral appliance therapy often practice “with guesswork,” he says.
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Medical Marijuana and Oral Health
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As more individual states legalize marijuana each year, we need to discuss the impact of marijuana on our oral health. That’s not to say that this is a new phenomenon—people have been partaking of pot, weed, or Maryjane as you may hear it colloquially called since it was first discovered by the Neolithics some...
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Equal Opportunity Disrupter: OSA and the atypical patient
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Contrary to stereotypes, you don’t need to be overweight to have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Long considered an old man’s disease, OSA is popping up in the most interesting demographics, particularly the fit, female, and young. An estimated 4-6% of American men have sleep apnea...
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OSA Screening Fails Pregnant Women: Complications and Considerations
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More and more studies are showing conclusive data that obstruction sleep apnea (OSA) is directly associated with an increase in maternal and fetal complications. In fact, OSA is associated with more frequent cesarean delivery, but the correlations do not end there. Mahesh Nagappa, MD, assistant...
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