I'm doctor David Binder
Dentist don't normally save lives; treating sleep apnea, I believe
can save your life.
I've saved lives
with a hunk of plastic
that just moves your jaw forward.
Snoring can be the first sign that there is a problem.
There are links between sleep apnea,
heart disease,
high blood pressure,
memory loss,
diabetes,
and even new links to cancer.
Everybody is a candidate for the appliance, or I should say, most people are candidates for the appliance. I spend a lot of time
with my patients. After they get the appliance, adjusting that plastic, picking the right plastic for them
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
and it's an art
and it's a science.
And those three things need to be blended together
to treat a person
and that person should be in the center of
your efforts.
What are we talking about on oral appliance therapy for sleep apnea
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
is worn on the lower during sleep. And how they relate to each other
pulls the lower jaw forward, pulling your tongue forward indirectly and opening your airway.
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
oral appliance and it's going to gently and slowly
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
from the sleep doctor's point of view, they would like to know, because they know they comparing it to CPAP
they like to see, and I don't blame them, that this is going to work for their patients.
I care about the patients.
That how I set up to practice. Today I'm set up
with a staff that will treat
and help help me treat my patients with all the follow-ups, the insertions, to make sure the appliance is working for the patient.
Patients have given me the joy of knowing that they feel so much better, that they are sleeping so much better.
They call me the love doctor.
That's funny,
you make noise or you move around in your bed
um ...
no one is going to want to sleep with you.
(snoring) Welcome
to
my world folks.
So put the oral appliance, again my hunk of plastic,
it works. You can create marriage, you can save a marriage. And you can save a life.