In the wake of an investigation into a dental appliance that multiple lawsuits allege caused grievous harm to patients, the FDA has begun looking into the product, the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance, according to a former agency official.
RDH: Speculation has been rife about a causative relationship between extractions for orthodontics and sleep-disordered breathing, says a registered dental hygienist.
Sleep physicians can identify and correct mouth breathing in their patients.
Previous work had primarily focused on how intermittent hypoxia affects only bone growth. Here, a team examined growth of cartilage cells.
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Read MoreSmall studies using Botox to treat temporomandibular muscle and joint disorders in humans have had mixed results.
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This “jaws epidemic” is not primarily genetic in origin, as previously thought, but rather a lifestyle disease.
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Pandemic-related stress has meant more patients need help with temporomandibular joint disorders at one dental sleep medicine center.
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Using a bedroom air filter that traps fine particles of pollution with diameters smaller than 2.5 micrometers can significantly improve breathing in asthmatic children, a new study in JAMA Pediatrics found.
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Early intervention can mitigate problems such as bedwetting, and dental sleep medicine practitioners are in the perfect place to screen children and treat those referred by physicians with oral appliances.
Read MorePulmonary physician Bruce L. Davidson MD, MPH, discusses aspiration during sleep with CNN.
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Researchers have discovered that improvements in OSA symptoms appear to be linked to the reduction of fat in one unexpected body part.
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Despite the pervasiveness of temporomandibular (TMJ) defects, treatments are lacking, and many...
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A longitudinal study performed to date looked at X-ray images of children at 5 developmental...
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The AAO-HNS guideline reduces the use of routine postop antibiotics and points out the FDA black...
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There’s a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses,...
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