9. E1 Dental Sleep Medicine Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
AASM guides what? -
correct answer ✅Sleep medicine practice parameters
Who diagnoses before appliance needed? -
correct answer ✅Medical evaluation
Indications for oral appliances -
correct answer ✅Primary snoring
Selected patients with OSA - obstructive sleep apnea
CPAP intolerance
Surgical contraindications
Who fits the sleep appliance? -
correct answer ✅Attending dentist
No breathing for 10 seconds or more -
correct answer ✅Apnea
, 9. E1 Dental Sleep Medicine Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Abnormal reduction airflow of about 50% -
correct answer ✅Hypopnea
Number of apneas per hour sleep, normal lower than 5 -
correct answer ✅Apnea index
Number of apneas and hypopneas per hour sleep, usually normal
under 5 -
correct answer ✅Apnea-hypopnea index
Problems in the CNS leading to apnea -
correct answer ✅Central apnea
Tongue over the airway and makes it hard to breath -
correct answer ✅Obstructive sleep apnea
Mixed apnea -
correct answer ✅Combo of central and obstructive sleep apnea
40 million people have sleep apnea, what percent undiagnosed? -
correct answer ✅85%
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
AASM guides what? -
correct answer ✅Sleep medicine practice parameters
Who diagnoses before appliance needed? -
correct answer ✅Medical evaluation
Indications for oral appliances -
correct answer ✅Primary snoring
Selected patients with OSA - obstructive sleep apnea
CPAP intolerance
Surgical contraindications
Who fits the sleep appliance? -
correct answer ✅Attending dentist
No breathing for 10 seconds or more -
correct answer ✅Apnea
, 9. E1 Dental Sleep Medicine Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Abnormal reduction airflow of about 50% -
correct answer ✅Hypopnea
Number of apneas per hour sleep, normal lower than 5 -
correct answer ✅Apnea index
Number of apneas and hypopneas per hour sleep, usually normal
under 5 -
correct answer ✅Apnea-hypopnea index
Problems in the CNS leading to apnea -
correct answer ✅Central apnea
Tongue over the airway and makes it hard to breath -
correct answer ✅Obstructive sleep apnea
Mixed apnea -
correct answer ✅Combo of central and obstructive sleep apnea
40 million people have sleep apnea, what percent undiagnosed? -
correct answer ✅85%
