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By starting with a digital screening tool like DROWZLE you drastically reduce the burden of screening on your workflow. Because the digital screening process doesn’t depend upon your personal mastery. Patients can be routinely assed without significantly impacting your clinical workflow. Saving you critical time and resources.
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Are you leveraging your patients’ medical insurance to the fullest extent? On this episode of Dentistry’s Growing with Grace, Grace Rizza sits down with Laurie Owens, CPC, CPB of Devdent to discuss the importance of properly billing your client’s insurance companies.
Growing up on a tropical island was amazing…the sun, sand (not particularly my favorite as
New studies show that tongue size can help indicate risk of obstructive sleep apnea, uncovering a new reason to lose weight: reducing tongue size.
Sleep testing is important, but not all sleep tests measure sleep! This makes it difficult to compare sleep results, but that is changing with SleepImage.
The American Sleep Apnea Association estimates that 1 to 4% of children experience pediatric sleep apnea, with a large amount being between 2 and 8 years old. No matter the age, sleep apnea is a devastating sleep disorder that can negatively impact health, wellness, and basic functioning if left undiagnosed and untreated.
From the loudest snore on record to being a cause of divorce, these stats about snoring are alarming. However, don’t let them scare you; instead, take it as inspiration to seek diagnosis and treatment if there is a sleep disorder actually causing your or your loved ones’ snoring problem.
Getting both the right quantity and quality of sleep is important for every aspect of health. If you’re not getting the recommended seven to nine hours for adults, then these seven tips to get the best night’s sleep are for you.
Dental sleep medicine may still be relatively new in the world of dentistry, but the major associations from the ADA to the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM) are all in agreement on dentistry’s role in sleep health. Dentists are key in reducing the number of people living with undiagnosed and untreated sleep disorders primarily with screening and oral appliance therapy.
A review of 51 different sleep studies found that people with sleep problems may have an increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia. While more studies and clinical trials must be done to determine why sleep affects brain health, the initial results make it worthwhile to take your sleep health seriously.
There is an ever-growing offering of over-the-counter or online night guards and snore appliances. While online healthcare certainly has a place, dentistry is not one of them. Patients need to know the risks and side effects that can occur when they take treatment into their own hands. When it comes to boil and bite vs. custom oral appliances, there are several reasons why custom is the better option.
The dental office isn’t high on our patient’s priority list. So, understanding that mindset should guide how to speak to your patients and how to help them.
As you start having conversations about sleep, obstacles to dental sleep medicine from your patients will come up. Your patients don’t know the link between oral health and sleep health until you share it with them. Here are the most common symptoms connected to poor sleep and breathing, as well as clear, simple responses you can use with your patients.
One of the biggest changes you can make is medical billing for dentistry, and particularly, billing Medicare. However, there is so much confusion around it. We will clear up the key points to getting set up with Medicare and the key points to billing Medicare for dentistry.
Presenting sleep treatment is no different than presenting any other type of dental treatment. Whether it’s a sleep appliance that costs $2,500, an implant case that costs $3,000, an ortho case at $5,000, or a quadrant of restorative dentistry for $1,800, case presentation is the same. To help practices overcome this obstacle, we teach the following six tips to increase case acceptance for oral appliance therapy.
Cancer treatment often will impact other areas of health. Oral health is one such area that should be monitored throughout treatment to ensure that any side effects are identified and treated quickly. Understanding dental care before, during, and after chemotherapy and radiation treatment will also guide you through the medical billing for dentistry.
One study involving thousands of patients in Spain found that those with the most severe forms of sleep apnea had a 65% greater risk of developing cancer.
Nearly 30 million adults in the U.S. have obstructive sleep apnea and they are aging faster because of it.
What is one of the hardest jobs of a dental practice? I’ll give you a
Do you look good in orange How about black and white stripes? We laugh now,
Remember tug of war? Your team pulling as hard as possible to make the dangling
If you look at any industry over time, there are stages of massive growth, development,
We can help! Just talk with one of our practice consultants and learn how medical billing or dental sleep medicine can strengthen your practice.
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