St. Paul/Minneapolis Dentist Treating Sleep Apnea and Snoring
Quality Care For... Sleep Apnea • Snoring
Inver Grove Heights Dentist Trish Braga, DDS provides a full spectrum of dental alternatives to CPAP treatment for sleep apnea and snoring. With expertise in related specialty fields such as TMJ treatment she can deliver superior, comprehensive sleep apnea or elimination of snoring services to her patients. She also works closely with medical Sleep Medicine specialists such as those at St. Paul Lung.
What does this mean to you? It means that Dr. Braga has acquired the hundreds of hours of training and hands-on experience required to deliver state of the art dental sleep medicine care and has been recognized as achieving that status by being designated a Clinical Director of Sleep Medicine by the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, the recognized leading authority in Dental Sleep Medicine worldwide.
AADSM Accreditation Awarded To Cahill Dental Care
Cahill Dental Care, is 4th dental clinic worldwide and the first in Minnesota to be awarded the prestigious designation ⎯ Accredited Dental Sleep Medicine Facility and Dr. Trish Braga has achieved status as The Clinical Director of Sleep Medicine. She and the entire staff at Cahill Dental Care can provide you with complete and caring dental sleep medicine treatment.
AADSM Dental Sleep Medicine Facility Accreditation is a voluntary process created to recognize competency and delivery of optimal care to dental sleep medicine patients. By achieving AADSM accreditation, a facility displays to patients, medical professionals and reimbursement decision-makers that it meets the high standards necessary to provide quality patient care.
Additionally, accreditation solidifies dental sleep medicine professionals as instrumental to the sleep medicine team and helps facilities build strong medical partnerships. Accreditation supports fair reimbursement for dental sleep medicine services by assuring insurance companies of the high standard of care offered by accredited dental facilities.
Dental sleep medicine facilities that seek to earn accreditation through the AADSM must meet the quality measures outlined in the Standards for Accreditation of Dental Sleep Medicine Facilities. These Standards aim to ensure that an accredited facility demonstrates Proficiency, Practice and Professionalism regarding the treatment of patients with sleep-related breathing disorders. View the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine Press Release Here.
Hate Your CPAP?
Using your CPAP is really important for your health. However, if you're unable to use it, there may be another choice. Dent al splints for sleep apnea are small and silent. and they can help you breathe well during sleep.
Travel light. When you travel, a dental sleep splint is like carrying nothing at all. No extra luggage needed for the CPAP.
Only Snoring?
Just about everyone snores occasionally, but if snoring happens frequently it can affect the quantity and quality of your sleep and that of other family members. Poor sleep can lead to daytime fatigue, irritability, and increased health problems. If your snoring keeps your partner awake, it can also create major relationship problems.
Thankfully, sleeping in separate bedrooms doesn’t have to be the remedy for your snoring. In fact, there are many effective solutions available. Once you find cure that works best to stop your snoring, you’ll vastly improve your health, your relationships, and, of course, your sleep. Go to our page on snoring.
Here's what Dr. Oz had to Say in Parade Magazine January 22, 2012 About Snoring:
"See a Sleep Apnea Dentist. Snorers as well as Sleep Apnea patients may benefit from an oral appliance—a small plastic device worn during sleep to help prevent the soft palate from collapsing. Even if you don’t have Obstructive Sleep Apnea, controlling snoring is important; a recent study showed that snoring more than doubles your risk of developing metabolic syndrome, one of the major predictors of future cardiovascular disease. Interrupted sleep, often a result of loud snoring, increases this risk even further."
