ORAL APPLIANCE THERAPY FOR SNORING AND SLEEP APNEA

Location & Directions

Howell Goldberg, DDS,FAGD
Quietsleep Fort Lauderdale
815 S. University Drive
Suite 102
Plantation, FL 33324
954-472-3303
hgoldbergdental@aol.com
http://www.quietsleepfortlauderdale.com/

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Directions to Office:

From 595, exit University Drive and go north past first light (Peters Road).  Take first left on S.W. 10 Street (Chili's on corner).  Make second right after TCBY and you will see our green General Dentistry sign on a brick building that has a covered drive up area with a Clock Tower.

 

sleep news



Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:56:15 -0500

Study Helps Explain Connection Between Sleep Apnea, Stroke and Death

Obstructive sleep apnea decreases blood flow to the brain, elevates blood pressure within the brain and eventually harms the brain’s ability to modulate these changes and prevent damage to itself, according to a new study published by The American Physiological Society. The findings may help explain why people with sleep apnea are more likely to suffer strokes and to die in their sleep...Continue


Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:53:14 -0500

Oral appliances are an important part of the armamentarium necessary for the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing.

They are gaining appeal among patients and health care providers because they are well tolerated by patients.

In February 2006, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine published a review of oral appliance therapy for sleep-disordered breathing.1 It was the result of an appointed task force who spent two years gathering and analyzing the latest medical evidence of the efficacy of oral appliance therapy. From this review, the AASM published a practice parameters update.2 ...Continue


Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:23:54 -0500

Wake-up call: Diabetics face sleep apnea risk

Here’s a wake-up call to the mil-lions of American men and women with type 2 diabetes: Snoring at night or nodding off during the day may be symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, a potentially life-threatening problem affecting one out of three diabetics....Continue