Medical emergencies can occur in dental offices. In fact, nearly 60% of dentists participate in the management of one to three medical emergencies annually.1 In North America, studies report syncope as the most frequent event witnessed by dentists.2 However, fatal emergencies are also possible. As a result of an increase in the number of older … Read more
Dentists wield enormous power over their patients’ medical outcomes – positive and negative – and it starts with our intimacy with people’s airways. 2019 will be remembered as a seminal moment for dentistry. Are you and your practice prepared? The important role that dentistry can play in airway centered disorders (ACD) is being discovered by … Read more
Why Do We Have a Problem? The apparent epidemic of OSA which is occurring in all industrialized countries should not come as a surprise. Many in the sleep community routinely cite the increase in obesity rates over the last three to four decades as the cause of this epidemic. 1-7 There is no question that obesity … Read more