AAOP Podcast #7 with Dr. Dennis Bailey - Sleep Medicine: Beyond Oral Appliances

Dr. Dennis Bailey discusses the role of dentists in sleep medicine. Dr. Bailey is a general dentist with a practice limited to the management of Sleep Related Breathing Disorders (Snoring and Sleep Apnea) utilizing oral appliances as well as Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD), Orofacial Pain and related headaches. He is a graduate of Indiana University School of Dentistry and completed a General Practice Residency at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. He is a past president of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (1998-1999), is the founder and past-chair of the Oral Appliance Section and served on the Standards of Practice Committee for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He frequently lectures both in the US and internationally and has authored numerous texts, articles and chapters on the topic of Sleep Medicine and on the use of Oral Appliances by the dentist for the management of snoring and sleep apnea. He is currently a visiting lecturer in the Orofacial Pain and Sleep Medicine Program at UCLA School of Dentistry and is the Co-Director of the Mini-Residency in Sleep Medicine for the Dentist. Dr. Bailey is a Past-President (2013-2014) of the Colorado Sleep Society and is the chair for the Sleep Medicine Committee for the American Academy of Orofacial Pain from 2012 to the present. He has Diplomate status in the American Board of Orofacial Pain and in the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine and is a Fellow in the Academy of General Dentistry, the American Academy of Orofacial Pain and the International College of Dentists.

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