Beschreibung:
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.
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.
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 disorders5 Medical and dental conditions related to sleep-relatedbreathing disordersSection 2 ASSESSMENT OF THE SLEEP-RELATED BREATHING DISORDERPATIENT.6. Sleep assessment/studies.7. Evaluation by the dentist.8. Imaging for sleep-related breathing disorders.Section 3 MANAGEMENT OF THE SLEEP-RELATED BREATHING DISORDERPATIENT.9. Positive airway pressure therapy for sleep-related breathingdisorders.10. Surgical treatment for sleep-related breathingdisorders.11. Oral appliance therapy for sleep-related breathingdisorders.APPENDICES.Appendix 1: Abbreviations for sleep medicine.Appendix 2: Glossary of terms for sleep medicine.Index.