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Dental Management of Sleep Disorders

ISBN: 978-1-118-70110-2

May 2013

Wiley-Blackwell

286 pages

Description
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.
About the Author
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.

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

 

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