Özet:
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a chronic
and widespread disease that generally
requires a lifelong treatment. Therefore, a
continuous oral appliance (OA) along with
behavioral modifications as an alternative
symptomatic treatment is required for this
chronic disease. Patients of this chronic
disease should have a regular and continuous
follow-up to monitor adherence to therapy,
side effects, development of medical systemic
complications and constant resolution of
symptoms. When considered from this point
of view, OA is widely used. In other words,
nowadays, patients can tolerate OAs and
prefer using them thanks to improvements in
OAs. OAs are designed to prevent any kind
of obstruction in upper airway by advancing
mandibular and thus holding open respiratory
tract during sleep. There are increasing
evidence that an active OA helps improve
daytime sleepiness and apnea/hypopnea
severity (sleep disordered breathing data) when
compared to an inactive OA (control group).
It approaches through mechanical ventilation
method (non-invasive, conservative). There
are many researches that prove OA to be even
more effective. It is declared many times that
symptomatic response difference is in favor of
OA.
