Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Study Finds Excellent Agreement Between Subjective And Objective Compliance With Oral Appliance Therapy
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“The results of this study suggest that the use of an objective instrument to measure oral appliance compliance during treatment of obstructive sleep apnea is feasible and, therefore, should be implemented in future studies dealing with oral appliance therapy for obstructive sleep apnea,” said principal investigator and lead author Olivier M. Vanderveken, MD, PhD, a staff-member consultant ENT, head and neck surgeon at the Antwerp University Hospital, and faculty lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Antwerp in Belgium.
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