What a dental practice can do here is specific and bounded. We can screen, we can raise the question, and where a physician has made a diagnosis we can provide oral appliance therapy as one of the recognized treatment options. Diagnosing sleep apnea is a physician role, and treatment decisions belong with them.
Why patients come in for this
- You snore, or you have been told you stop breathing in your sleep
- You wake unrefreshed despite enough hours in bed
- You have been diagnosed with sleep apnea and cannot tolerate CPAP
- You are looking for an evaluation of your child
What this category includes
Planned treatments. Each is subject to confirmation by clinical leadership before opening.
- Sleep apnea screening
- Snoring evaluation
- Oral appliance therapy
- Adult airway evaluations
- Pediatric airway evaluations
- Frenectomy consultations
- Myofunctional therapy coordination
- Whole-health treatment planning
Why patients may choose Smile Studio of Rehoboth
We are a new practice, so we are not going to point at decades of local reputation we have not earned yet. What we can tell you is how we intend to work: findings explained in plain language, options presented with their trade-offs, written costs before treatment is scheduled, and a pace you set.
When a case is better handled by a specialist, we will say so and coordinate the referral rather than stretching past what this practice does well.