Oral Appliances and CPAP are treatments for sleep apnea much like an artificial leg is a replacement for a missing leg. Epigenetic Orthodontics offers many patients a potential cure for sleep apnea by permanently correcting pathologic orthopedic relationships. The DNA appliance can literally grow bone creating a larger oral cavity. This process can be described as Pneumopedics or the growing of a larger airway permanently to eliminate sleep apnea.
The DNA Appliance allows orthodontic, orthopedic and pneumopedic changes while only wearing the appliance 12-16 hours a day.
DNA stands for Day and Night Appliance. A special variation of the DNA Appliance is the RNA Appliance that treats the sleep apnea while growth of the bones and airway occur.
Morbidly obese patients may not be able to cure sleep apnea but may be able to increase the size of their airway.
Sleep Apnea is very dangerous and there are no guarantees of a cure, therefor it is important for every patient to have folow-up sleep studies evaluated by a sleep physician.
Obstructive sleep apnea affects around 20 million Americans and can lead to hypertension, heart attack, stroke, depression, muscle pain, fibromyalgia, morning headaches, and excessive daytime sleepiness.
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Patient describes 5 years of sleep apnea treatment with oral appliance. He initially used the CPAP machine but found it made him uncomfortab...
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Lake Forest Sleep Apnea Treatment: Sleep Apnea patient describes how wearing a sleep apnea appliance for the last 6-7 years has drastic...
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Mike describes how he was diagnosed with sleep apnea. He was less than thrilled with diagnosis and definitely did not want CPAP. He travels...