San Diego Dental & Cosmetic Dentistry Blog

The SomnoDent MAS™ appliance is a great alternative to the cumbersome sleep apnea treatment called CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure). Unlike CPAP, the SomnoDent MAS™ appliance does not use a mask attached to a machine to open the airways while sleeping. Instead, this appliance gently moves your lower jaw to keep the airways open. This slight movement prevents the soft tissue in the rear of the throat from collapsing causing breathing to stop.
 
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There have been huge changes in my profession, which have occurred due to desires of my generation, that have expanded the dental services we provide. 
 
The Boomer Generation is dentally, radically different than their parent’s generation. 

• In 1965, the average 65 year old American had 7 teeth, and 6 months of life expectancy.
• By 2015, the average 65 year old American will have 24 teeth and 15 years left to use them.

We are not letting people lose teeth to gum disease, and as such, we...

Since the mid-70’s, we have been able to bond tooth colored dental material or fillings to enamel.  Even when I entered dental school in 1975, we could replace a chip on a front tooth by bonding.   It works like this:  W e  first  do is place a mild acid on the tooth.  This etching process creates million of rough surfaces that we can then place a clean bonding agent, or resin which latches into the roughened enamel surface, creating a micro-mechanical adhesion.  We then place the tooth colored filling material over that resin, which bonds to...

Moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea increases the risk of coronary heart disease or death by 68% in men under the age of 70, but does not increase the risk for men over 70 or for women, researchers reported Monday. Previous studies have also found an increased risk of death linked to the night-time breathing disorder, but the studies have generally involved only small groups of patients, often those who are hospitalized, and most included few or no women. The new study, reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Assn., is by far the largest study to date.

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