WEBVTT FILE 00:00:03.453 --> 00:00:06.369 I'm doctor David Binder 00:00:06.927 --> 00:00:14.086 Dentist don't normally save lives; treating sleep apnea, I believe 00:00:14.487 --> 00:00:15.373 can save your life. 00:00:17.068 --> 00:00:18.575 I've saved lives 00:00:18.941 --> 00:00:20.291 with a hunk of plastic 00:00:21.233 --> 00:00:23.286 that just moves your jaw forward. 00:00:23.426 --> 00:00:28.209 Snoring can be the first sign that there is a problem. 00:00:28.688 --> 00:00:31.429 There are links between sleep apnea, 00:00:32.118 --> 00:00:33.284 heart disease, 00:00:33.509 --> 00:00:34.596 high blood pressure, 00:00:34.936 --> 00:00:36.075 memory loss, 00:00:36.563 --> 00:00:37.702 diabetes, 00:00:37.832 --> 00:00:39.812 and even new links to cancer. 00:00:40.509 --> 00:00:47.199 Everybody is a candidate for the appliance, or I should say, most people are candidates for the appliance. I spend a lot of time 00:00:47.339 --> 00:00:55.727 with my patients. After they get the appliance, adjusting that plastic, picking the right plastic for them 00:00:55.971 --> 00:01:05.852 and moving their jaw forward and talking to them. How they are feeling, how they are sleeping, making their life and lives better. It's a craft 00:01:06.383 --> 00:01:07.295 and it's an art 00:01:07.512 --> 00:01:09.736 and it's a science. 00:01:09.971 --> 00:01:13.333 And those three things need to be blended together 00:01:13.856 --> 00:01:15.731 to treat a person 00:01:15.991 --> 00:01:18.910 and that person should be in the center of 00:01:19.050 --> 00:01:21.917 your efforts. 00:01:22.273 --> 00:01:27.852 What are we talking about on oral appliance therapy for sleep apnea 00:01:27.992 --> 00:01:39.731 this is the device or one of the devices that were are talking about. It's a retainer that's worn on the upper ... during sleep and the retainer 00:01:40.010 --> 00:01:43.941 is worn on the lower during sleep. And how they relate to each other 00:01:44.201 --> 00:01:50.652 pulls the lower jaw forward, pulling your tongue forward indirectly and opening your airway. 00:01:51,349 --> 00:02:01,889 with the Matrix, we're going to know that the appliances going to work for you. It's a motor that attaches to the test 00:02:02,029 --> 00:02:06,291 oral appliance and it's going to gently and slowly 00:02:06,431 --> 00:02:17,252 move your jaw out during a sleep study so you will be able to see in real time out those micro movements affect your sleep and your breathing 00:02:17,372 --> 00:02:25,555 from the sleep doctor's point of view, they would like to know, because they know they comparing it to CPAP 00:02:25.737 --> 00:02:30.735 they like to see, and I don't blame them, that this is going to work for their patients. 00:02:31.582 --> 00:02:33.177 I care about the patients. 00:02:33.498 --> 00:02:36.746 That how I set up to practice. Today I'm set up 00:02:37.366 --> 00:02:41.752 with a staff that will treat 00:02:42.152 --> 00:02:51.516 and help help me treat my patients with all the follow-ups, the insertions, to make sure the appliance is working for the patient. 00:02:52.101 --> 00:03:03.224 Patients have given me the joy of knowing that they feel so much better, that they are sleeping so much better. 00:03:03.668 --> 00:03:05.385 They call me the love doctor. 00:03:05.978 --> 00:03:06.636 That's funny, 00:03:07.501 --> 00:03:09.769 you make noise or you move around in your bed 00:03:10.134 --> 00:03:10.845 um ... 00:03:11.071 --> 00:03:12.552 no one is going to want to sleep with you. 00:03:12.917 --> 00:03:15.544 (snoring) Welcome 00:03:15.691 --> 00:03:16.343 to 00:03:16.483 --> 00:03:20.076 my world folks. 00:03:21.422 --> 00:03:24.836 So put the oral appliance, again my hunk of plastic, 00:03:25.071 --> 00:03:30.647 it works. You can create marriage, you can save a marriage. And you can save a life.