New CPAP Alternative Publishes Positive Study Results

It looks like obstructive sleep apnea sufferers may soon have another option for sleep apnea treatment. The device, known as Provent, uses the body's own respiratory cycle to create the air pressure necessary to keep airways from closing during sleep.

Provent attempts to give patients the benefits of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) without the noisy device and uncomfortable mask. The device is described as an expiratory positive airway pressure (EPAP) device because its vent system uses the body's expiratory motion to maintain pressure that keeps airways open. To use the system, patients put one disposable device in each nostril. These nostril devices are secured with hypoallergenic adhesives that create a seal on the nostril. They have vents that allow you to breathe in, but close when you breathe out, creating a positive pressure that helps the airways to stay open.

In the preliminary results from this study, which is being conducted at 19 centers across the country, researchers compared people using the device with those using sham devices. Within the first week, the 127 people being treated with the Provent device showed significant improvement while the 123 people using sham treatment did not. At three months, the people using the Ventus device saw a 42.7% decrease in their apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), a measure of a person's degree of oxygen deprivation during sleep. In addition, their Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) scores reduced from an average of 9.9 to 7.2. Perhaps most important for comparing the results for the device to CPAP, the median percentage of nights in which people used the device for the entire night was 88.2%.

It is nice to know that there may be another treatment option for people looking to treat their obstructive sleep apnea without CPAP. If you would like to learn more about the treatment options available for your sleep apnea, please contact a local sleep dentist today for more information.

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Wisconsin Sleep Apnea Treatment: Oral Appliances are a comfortable alternative to CPAP, BiPAP or A-PAP

Treatment of sleep apnea is vital to the health and welfare of patients diagnosed with sleep apnea. CPAP treatment was once the only treatment offered to most patient. This is no longer the case. Dental Sleep Medicine ofers comfortable oral appliances as a comfortable alternative to CPAP.

Most sleep physicians follow the AASM guidline and offer oral appliance therapy as a treatment choice. Some sleep physicians have not kept up with the research and are not aware that recent studies have shown that properly titrated cpap oral appliances can be as effective as cpa.

60% of all patients who try cpap cannot tolerate and discontinue treatment while 90-95% of patients are successful with oral appliance therapy. The majority of patients offered a choice prefer oral appliance therapy to cpap and most insurance companies now cover oral appliance therapy.

Coverage of sleep apnea treatment saves insurance companies money by reducing heart attacks and strokes, hypertension, aiding in diabetes treatment and reducing motor vehicle and work-place accidents.

Employers have found that employees who have had effective sleep apnea treatment have higher output, lower medical expenses, and fewer workplace accidents and worker compensation claims.

Some sleep physicians continue to bad mouth oral appliance out of ignorance or due to bad experiences with untrained dentists providing poor quality treatment in the past.

Many dentists do not understand the importance of follow-up polysomnography in all patients. Failure to follow proper protocols can put patients at risk.

Other physicians have financial intrests in DME companies and are loathe to lose the income sales of cpap and cpap supplies generate.

I provide Dental Sleep Medicine treatment with oral appliances to patiens in Southeast Wisconsin including Lake Geneva, Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee. I am certified in Dental Sleep Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine. I am a former Asistant Professor at Rush Medicak Schools sleep center and have over 25 years successfully treating sleep apnea with oral appliances.

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For many years oral appliance therapy was considered by many sleep physicians to be a joke. That is no longer the case. When compliance and effectiveness are both considered oral appliances are far more effective than CPAP for many patients.

Many patients who are "successfully" treated with CPAP do not improve subjectively with CPAP treatment. In fact, many feel worse with CPAP than with no treatment. This is in spite of CPAP effectively trreating their apnea. Patients who utilize oral appliance frequently feel dramatic improvement in quality of life compared to CPAP treatment even though objective measurement shows resolution of apnea with CPAP.

CPAP can disrupt a patient's sleep even as it successfully treats their sleep apnea. Oral appliances frequently produce dramatic increases in QOL or quality of life even when apnea is not completely eliminated.

Successful treatment of sleep apnea requires both subjective and objective success. CPAP is often lacking when "feeling better" is considered important.

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