Re: Using an Oral Appliance with CPAP Really Helped - Details
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:00 pm
This is great information!
Note that the "process" is long with an oral appliance. You have to slowly adjust the device to avoid those jaw pains (and other potential problems). I kept a journal for about two months where I recorded the number of turns on the device (each turn resulted in less than a mm in moving my lower jaw forward) and the resulting AHI's. At the end, my oral device is almost maxed out. But it works great.
Am looking forward to seeing your results.
-Mike
Note that the "process" is long with an oral appliance. You have to slowly adjust the device to avoid those jaw pains (and other potential problems). I kept a journal for about two months where I recorded the number of turns on the device (each turn resulted in less than a mm in moving my lower jaw forward) and the resulting AHI's. At the end, my oral device is almost maxed out. But it works great.
Am looking forward to seeing your results.
-Mike