Category: Airway Disorders/Sleep Apnea

How Dentists Can Save Lives Through Dental Sleep & Airway Education, Emphasizing Oral Systemic Health

How Airway Problems Can Wreak Havoc on Teeth, Jaw, and Wellbeing

Sleep Disordered Breathing: Effects on Children’s Growth and Development

Thanks for all who attended our Watch It Wednesday free dental webinar! If you couldn’t make it, we invite you to watch the broadcast below. Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is an epidemic, and it is imperative that dentists increase their knowledge and understanding of the significant links between breathing disorders and malocclusions in their patients. […]

Tips for Treating Airway Disorders

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Malocclusion and Breathing Disorders: Uncovering Their Relationship

Enjoy this free one hour dental webinar about the relationship between malocclusion and breathing disorders. Dr. DeWitt Wilkerson explains.

Screening for Airway Issues

Integrating Airway Disorders into Treatment

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The correlation between bruxism and airway disorders

One of the things that really keyed us into the fact that airway and breathing disorders are very significant is that we began to see some things from studies that were done overnight that showed that it’s very common for patients that have, let’s say, sleep apnea, to have an apneic event, and at the […]

Webinar: Airway Orthodontics-An Introduction to the New Paradigm

Dr. Barry Raphael discuss how many of our dental school and residency orthodoxies are now very different than what was taught. He’ll turn your thinking about Sleep Dentistry around, too. Traditionally, in orthodontics we align the teeth first, set the occlusion, get the jaws to balance and match the joints, hope the muscles will follow the form, […]

My patient has an airway disorder: where do I start?

So I think that my patient hay have an airway disorder. Where do I start? What are the first steps that need to happen in order to diagnosis and treat this?

What can TMD have to do with airway?

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Why you should get a CBCT for evaluating airway problems

CBCT’s can be helpful not only for evaluating the temporomandibular joints and looking at the cortex and integrity of the bone and joint spacing, but also for airway.