Bill HangDental Practitioner, Lecturer at OrthO2Health

Kevin Adair DDS MSD - Appliances

26 Jan 2021 · 1 min

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In this segment, Dr. Kevin Adair (Speaker A) shares a range of patient-reported outcomes associated with oral appliance therapy. He notes improvements such as vivid, colorful dreaming, enhanced breathing, reduced heart rate and blood pressure, decreased reliance on medication, better speech articulation due to increased tongue space, and the resolution of chronic headaches. He emphasizes the breadth of possible benefits, acknowledging that each patient presents with a unique set of symptoms and may experience different therapeutic results. The anecdote of a patient who stopped daily headaches after treatment highlights the sometimes unexpected and significant positive changes reported by users of oral appliances.

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The first one I usually hear about is dreaming. Oh, I can remember my dreams now. I can dream in color. We hear that all the time about just feeling better, breathing better. We've heard medical conditions about the heart rate, you know, like their blood pressure goes down or they get off medication. I've heard ones about being able to speak better. I have more room for my tongue and I can talk. It's just such a wide gamut of things that kind of pop up. The main ones, though, are breathing better, feeling better. Headaches go away. Just a lot of symptoms that just seem to, to go away. You don't know which ones are going to be. Each patient comes in with different symptoms, and the treatment sometimes gives you different results. So some people that don't even tell you about an issue that they have, they don't even tell you that they have or had a headache, coming back and say, yeah, I no longer have any headaches. I had a headache every day. And it's just amazing.