Dental Management Of Sleep Disorders

by Ronald Attanasio (University Of Nebraska Medical Center, Lincoln, Nebraska ); Dennis R. Bailey (Private Practice, Englewood, Co)

• ISBN13: 9780813819136
• ISBN10: 081381913X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Ronald Attanasio is Professor and Director of the TMD and Orofacial Pain Clinic at the University of Nebraska Medical Center-College of Dentistry in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Overview of sleep Medicine
Impact of sleep disorders on society	p. 3
Human sleep	p. 15
Classification of sleep disorders	p. 33
Pediatrics and sleep-related breathing disorders	p. 70
Medical and dental conditions related to sleep-related breathing disorders	p. 91
Assessment of the sleep-related breathing disorder Patient
Sleep assessment/studies	p. 113
Evaluation by the dentist	p. 128
Imaging for sleep-related breathing disorders	p. 150
Management of the sleep-related breathing disorder Patient
Positive airway pressure therapy for sleep-related breathing disorders	p. 167
Surgical treatment for sleep-related breathing disorders	p. 196
Oral appliance therapy for sleep-related breathing disorders	p. 221
Appendices
Abbreviations for sleep medicine	p. 263
Glossary of terms for sleep medicine	p. 265
Index	p. 268
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