Main 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.

Contents:

Preface. Section 1 OVERVIEW OF SLEEP MEDICINE. 1. Impact of sleep disorders on society. 2. Human sleep. 3. Classification of sleep disorders. 4. Pediatrics and sleep-related breathing disorders 5 Medical and dental conditions related to sleep-related breathing disorders Section 2 ASSESSMENT OF THE SLEEP-RELATED BREATHING DISORDER PATIENT. 6. Sleep assessment/studies. 7. Evaluation by the dentist. 8. Imaging for sleep-related breathing disorders. Section 3 MANAGEMENT OF THE SLEEP-RELATED BREATHING DISORDER PATIENT. 9. Positive airway pressure therapy for sleep-related breathing disorders. 10. Surgical treatment for sleep-related breathing disorders. 11. Oral appliance therapy for sleep-related breathing disorders. APPENDICES. Appendix 1: Abbreviations for sleep medicine. Appendix 2: Glossary of terms for sleep medicine. Index.