Exploring dental sleep medicine
Dental sleep medicine is an area of dental practice that focuses on the use of oral appliances to treat sleep disordered breathing, including snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA). As part of a multi-disciplinary team, we encourage dentists and sleep physicians to work together in the treatment of those patients being prescribed an oral appliance.
Research proves repeatedly that poor sleep quality impacts on quality of life. At SomnoMed®, we strongly believe that dentists can have an impact on patients’ quality of sleep by treating their OSA with a SomnoDent oral appliance.
To develop your dental sleep medicine practice and for information about dental sleep medicine course, please contact SomnoMed.


Advantages of digital scanning in the dental practice
The SomnoMed® range of oral appliances for the treatment of OSA incorporates the latest, most advanced technology in digital design and manufacturing to give the ultimate in fit and comfort.
For dental sleep providers to benefit from this technology, intraoral scanning to capture the patient’s impressions is becoming essential.
Although intraoral scanning is a relatively new innovation in dentistry, it is proving very helpful in Dental Sleep Medicine. Patients with a sensitive gag reflex no longer have to suffer impression trays and material and it provides a seamless delivery to the laboratory.
SomnoDent® devices are compatible with the scans of Trios, iTero, Carestream, 3M True Definition and more.
Iskustva pacijenata
Michaelovo iskustvo
Koristim svoj SomnoMed® uređaj oko dvije godine. Neizmjerno je poboljšao kvalitetu mog sna i, posljedično, određene aspekte mog života, na bolje. U rijetkim slučajevima kada zaboravim staviti uređaj, kvaliteta mog sna se instantno pogoršava. Neprocjenjiv je.
Simovo iskustvo
Mohammedovo iskustvo
Royevo iskustvo
Kao i mnogi, postao sam svjestan svog hrkanja tokom noći i jutarnjeg umora nakon spavanja. To me navelo da se obratim svom liječniku opće prakse koji je posumnjao da imam Sindrom Opstruktivne Apneje tijekom Spavanja i uputio me u bolnicu na dodatne pretrage. Tamo su mi dali Epworth Sleep Study upitnik za ispunjavanje, koji je pokazao da patim od "dnevne pospanosti", ali ništa ozbiljno. Ipak, bilo je potrebno odraditi dodatne pretrage, pa je dogovoreno da provedem noć u bolnici, gdje mi je obavljena kompletna analiza spavanja.