Dental Sleep Medicine

Sleep apnea is a serious sleep condition where airway constriction causes breathing cessation, which repeats several times through the night. Sleep apnea affects the quality of your sleep as well as your internal organs and daytime ability to function well. Fortunately, Dr. Chad V. Yenchesky has studied with an expert in the field, Dr. Steven Olmos at the TMJ & Sleep Therapy Research Centre, and can treat sleep apnea for Green Bay area patients.

When patients come to Fox View Dental first or when they are referred from a Green Bay area sleep apnea physician, dentist or primary physician, we conduct a thorough health questionnaire as well as a TMD (temporomandibular dysfunction) evaluation. Dr. Yenchesky looks at the teeth, joints, sleep quality and airway evaluation as well as myofascial pain. With this knowledge, he can create an oral appliance that will help you get quality sleep, and address nighttime grinding and clenching, if applicable.

The appliances this De Pere dentist works with are the SomnoDent® MAS appliance and the Silent Nite® appliance. These work by positioning the lower jaw in a way that you get the airflow you need, all night long. Snoring is also usually eliminated or significantly reduced with these appliances, which are comfortable, adjustable by the patient and they enable your peace of mind.

Oral appliances are favorable to the CPAP wind machine for many reasons:

• More comfortable
• Less invasive
• Much more natural to sleep in
• They don’t make noise like the CPAP, plus snoring is usually eliminated or significantly reduced
• Portable for travel
• No limits on your sleep positions

Learn more! If you are constantly fatigued, wake with a dry mouth, have short-term memory struggles, have irritability, have trouble staying focused or are just exhausted, you could be dealing with sleep apnea. Green Bay area dentist, Dr. Yenchesky can refer you to a trustworthy sleep physician who can perform a sleep study and provide you with a sleep diagnosis. When you’re ready, Dr. Yenchesky can build the right sleep appliance to help you.

Providing services for sleep apnea in Green Bay area.