So many people have sleep apnea and are undiagnosed and it’s becoming a problem for more and more people. If they are non-diagnosed it can lead to really detrimental health problems and so most people are diagnosed with sleep apnea or if they are diagnosed with sleep apnea they’re always recommended a CPAP machine and for some people they can’t tolerate that. They have a very difficult time with it and we can offer an alternative treatment option which is an oral sleep appliance and we can allow them to have some relief from that sleep apnea and improve on their symptoms without a CPAP machine.
It does take several visits to get that appliance titrated to get it fitting properly and patients need to understand that it’s not something that happens overnight, that it is a process, but it’s a different option than what they are going to be presented by their sleep medicine doctor.