Out of Town

I am leaving in a few minutes to go to China and Japan to teach dental sleep medicine. I won't be making a blog entry next week, but will be back the week after.

Today I just want to remind everyone that a key part of evaluating your patients for an oral appliance is to make sure they have the dexterity to use the appliance.

How do we check the dexterity? Have the patient hold their hands out in font of you. Then see if they can open their fingers and rotate the hands. Then have the patient squeeze one of your fingers.

If the patient can't perform these simple tasks then an appliance won't work because the patient won't be able to insert or remove the appliance.

​See you in a few weeks.