Dentistry Made Simple with Dr. Tarun 'TBone' Agarwal
Season 1 Episode 14 - Essential Things You Need to Know About Sleep Apnea
We've been discussing sleep apnea on this podcast for quite a while now, but in today's episode, we're going to dig deeper into this topic. And to help us understand even more of the intricacies of sleep apnea in dental medicine, I have with us Pat McBride. Pat has been dealing with sleep apnea for quite a while and has an extensive experience with diagnostics, therapies, and training staff become an integral part of the practice. There is so much to learn in this episode and Pat has been kind enough to provide us some literature available for you to download. Key Takeaways You'll Learn From this Episode: Consistency is really important in terms of the people who are caring for them. Yes suck it up and move on because by far the most important thing you do is to realize you have the ability to save somebody's life. If you walk through a program that you can teach every single staff in every single office who wants to do these, you will make people better and the long term goal for this is that you make people feel better. If you have AFib you have sleep apnea Sleep apnea is a progressive and a process type disease Every person is different in their physiological need What you're looking at is a long-term improvement in their health status