September 2018
Spotlight of the Month
Dr. Phillip C. Hall, DDS
Hallmark Sleep Solutions, St. George, UT
Hallmark Sleep Solutions is located in St. George, Utah. Dr. Phillip Hall is a general dentist that has been practicing for over 40 years. Dr. Hall has been specialized in the treatment of Sleep Apnea and TMJ/TMD problems for over 15 years.
Favorite Success Stories:
- • My favorite stories are those where I have reconnected relationships. I have many patients where, due to C-PAP or excessive snoring, they are no longer sleeping together in the same room as their spouse or partner. After wearing their oral appliance for a few nights, they have moved back in the same bedroom and they often tell me I have saved their relationships!
Tips for Treating Patients:
- • Don’t be in a hurry to advance patients very far when making an oral sleep appliance. Conservative advancements (50-60% a patient’s max) at first helps with initial compliance. You’ll have less or almost no muscle and joint pain, this is a key to success.
- • When discussing treatment with the patient, build their confidence. Assure them they will be successful wearing the oral appliance.
- • If you have a moderate or high AHI patient, hold them in the bite position you are going to set their appliance in. Have the patient breathe with their mouth closed and the bite fork in place, then remove and breathe without advancement. The patient will notice the difference and start to gain a great deal of confidence that OSA treatment will work.
Dr. Phillip C. Hall, DDS
Featured Course
Identifying OSA Patients
With Dr. Rob Veis
The addition of treating Sleep Apnea in your office is more than just treating the patients. This course includes how to acquire new patients, how the pre-treatment evaluation and diagnosis works, and, most importantly, how to deal with insurance to avoid delays and be efficient in your practice. This course also explains the documentation that is necessary for treatment and billing.
Featured Webinar
The Breathing Wellness Movement Beyond Sleep Dentistry
Presented by R. Kirk Huntsman & Bryan Ferre
Over the past decade, sleep dentistry has been a hot topic among progressive minded dentists around the world. And although clinically effective, traditional sleep dentistry has its limitations. Today, new science and technology make it possible to go beyond sleep dentistry.
The Breathing Wellness movement has begun. Beyond palliative treatments, The Breathing Wellness movement is making it possible to rid the world of mild-to-moderate sleep apnea and sleep disordered breathing. During this exciting one hour webinar, R. Kirk Huntsman, CEO of Vivos Therapeutics, Inc. and Bryan Ferre, Chief Evangelist of Vivos Therapeutics & the Breathing Wellness Movement will introduce the breakthrough achievements of some of the early pioneers in The Breathing Wellness movement. We will briefly examine some of the important milestones along this very important journey.
Bring your questions!
Thursday, September 6th
at 5 PM PST/ 8 PM EST.
Do Sleep Apnea and PTSD Have Overlapping Factors?
Around 8% of the US population will experience PTSD in their life.
So how is sleep apnea related to PTSD in veterans?
Research has shown that there are factors that overlap in both disorders which affect and aggravate each other. Overlapping factors include disturbed sleep in combat, excessive deprivation, fragmented sleep, hyperarousal, and chronic stress. Although all of these symptoms can contribute to the interaction between sleep apnea and PTSD, the main culprits seem to be sleep deprivation and chronic stress.
The important takeaway message is that if you are a veteran suffering from PTSD, it is important to get a screening for sleep apnea. If you have undiagnosed sleep apnea, you could be suffering from symptoms that can be treated.