Sleep apnea treatment device with wireless compliance sensor gets FDA nod.
By: Jonah Comstock | Jun 25, 2015 An oral appliance for treating sleep apnea, with an embedded wireless compliance sensor, has received FDA clearance. The device is from Australian company SomnoMed and the tracker is from Braebon Medical Corporation, a company based in Ontario, Canada. The tracker, called DentiTrac, can be embedded in a number of different oral appliances to track compliance with continuous open airway therapy (COAT) an up-and-coming alternative to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for treating sleep apnea. SomnoMed’s SomnoDent device is the first partner device to receive FDA clearance, which means SomnoMed will, for the moment …
A Look at the 2015 Oral Appliance Clinical Practice Guideline
Published on July 30, 2015 Two dentists from the joint AASM-AADSM task force discuss the updated guideline for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and snoring with oral appliance therapy. By Sheri G. Katz, DDS, and Leslie C. Dort, DDS Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is recognized by the medical community as a serious disease that requires diligent care and treatment by a dedicated team. Over the past 20 years, dentists have become a bigger part of this sleep team, working alongside sleep physicians, primary care providers, and other medical colleagues to facilitate care and optimize the protocol for how and …
Elevated Sleep Apnea Risk, Bruxism As Independent Risk Factors for First-onset TMD
July 26, 2015 / BY PETER BLAIS, RPSGT A study by Elizabeth Kornegay, RDH, BSDH, could help dentists better screen patients for potential obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and assess the need for patients to get a sleep test by including questions about bruxism in conversations about snoring. Kornegay’s study, “Elevated Risk for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Predicts Temporomandibular Disorder Independently of Sleep Bruxism and Awake Bruxism” earned her the AADSM Graduate Student Excellence Award. “My research contributes to the growing body of literature regarding an association between obstructive sleep apnea and chronic orofacial pain, such as temporomandibular disorders (TMD),” Kornegay says. “It …
FDA clears devices to reduce snoring in patients without sleep apnea
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock: This device is basically a low level CPAP. Why not use an oral device for snoring that smaller and more comfortable to use. July 29, 2015 | By Varun Saxena InSleep Health just received FDA clearance for its Cloud9 Anti-Snoring System, which deploys continuous low positive airway pressure to help snorers (and their annoyed partners). The prescription-only device consists of an air-flow unit and headgear worn around the head that delivers low-pressure air into the nose. The two components are connected via a hose. Cloud9 is one …
TAG Sleep, sleeping disorders, Migraine, panic disorder Sleep Apnea Linked To Migraine, Panic Disorder, Hearing And Other Things You Need To Know
By Rina Marie Doctor, Tech Times | July 27, 9:54 AM Previous studies suggest that both depressive and anxiety disorders emerge after a diagnosis of sleep apnea had been made. However, the exact association between sleep apnea and panic disorder is not clearly established and so a group of researchers decided to investigate on their relationship. Migraines and hearing impairments are also being linked to sleep apnea in other literatures. A group of researchers, who studied the association of panic disorder and sleep apnea obtained their data from patients diagnosed with sleep apnea from 2000-2010 through the Taiwan National Health …
Snoring Children May Suffer From Sleep Apnea
By JANE E. BRODY / JULY 27, 2015 5:45 AM Credit Paul Rogers Barrett Treadway, now 3½, has never been the best of sleepers, but her sleep grew increasingly worse in the last year and a half. She gets up several times a night, often climbs into her parents’ bed and creates havoc with their nights. “We’ve known for a long time that she snores, but until a mother-daughter trip in May when we shared a bed, I didn’t realize that this was not simply snoring,” her mother, Laura, told me. “She repeatedly stopped breathing, then started again with a …
Sleep apnea patients have new, simple alternative to CPAP
Posted: Jul 15, 2015 7:48 AM CDT Updated: Jul 15, 2015 7:48 AM CDT by Jonathan Choe MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – Millions of Americans snore or struggle with sleep apnea. These breathing conditions could lead to other serious health problems, but several influential groups are saying a simple mouthpiece is becoming more effective in treating these nagging bedtime issues. “Snoring is narrowing of the airway, sleep apnea is closure of the airway,” Dr. Jonathan Parker of the Snoring and Sleep Apnea Dental Treatment Center explained. Aside from being unable to breathe, sleep apnea can lead to other problems like high blood …
Not Just a Man’s Disease — Women Get Sleep Apnea Too!
Posted: 09/19/2014 8:24 am EDT Decades ago, heart disease was thought of as a “man’s disease” before well-targeted public education campaigns increased cardiac illness recognition among women and its profound impact on their health. Similarly, one of the most common sleep disorders, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), has received a masculine label. Granted, OSA affects half as many women as men, but it is far from rare — about 6 percent of women suffer from this condition [1]. The lack of awareness in the medical community about the impact of OSA on women is partly rooted in gender bias and partly …
Snooze-Deprived Couples Rest Easy After ‘Sleep Divorce’
by HALLIE JACKSON Jack Mazewski snores so loudly that his children sleeping down the hall can hear it. The noise didn’t bother his wife, Joanna, for the first few years of their marriage — until their kids were born. “I became a light sleeper because you have a little more stress – two children, a mortgage, bills,” said Joanna Mazewski. Night after night, her husband’s snoring kept her awake. “She would poke me a few times,” Jack said. His wife quickly corrected him: “I would say kick, not poke.” “I would end up waking him up in the middle of …
New Gold Standard in Wearable Compliance Measurement Receives FDA Clearance
Dr. Norman Blumenstock will be offering this. Give the office a call to find out more information. Jun 24, 2015, 13:24 ET from BRAEBON Medical Corporation KANATA, Ontario, June 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — BRAEBON Medical Corporation announces today that the DentiTrac® oral appliance compliance system has passed a substantial regulatory hurdle and is now FDA cleared in the USA for use with the SomnoDent oral device. BRAEBON congratulates SomnoMed for being the first company in the world to achieve this milestone. The DentiTrac® system has been developed by BRAEBON. It is a wearable micro-recorder and web cloud portal combination which …
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