Working The Dentist – Physician Team / Diagnosis & Data

Working with your patient’s doctor - or a sleep specialist - to make sure that the patient has been properly evaluated and diagnosed is essential. It is the “how” that is important. Most view this step as a hindrance…it is not.

Working with the medical community protects you legally, increases opportunity for referrals and keeps you within the scope of your practice.

“Can’t tolerate CPAP? I know a dentist that is treating with appliances…you might work with him.”

New technology ensures that the dentist can function as an integral part of the screening process.

IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE SLEEP PATIENT BE TESTED WITH A HOME SLEEP TESTING DEVICE OR AN OVERNIGHT- ATTENDED PSG.

ALWAYS follow-up with your patient’s sleep physician (and any other treating physicians) with regard to status of your mutual patient.

Diagnosis & Data:

The American Association for Sleep Medicine requires that every patient treated with a sleep oral appliance - whether for snoring, mild-to-moderate OSA or CPAP intolerance – MUST have a sleep test and a diagnosis by a medical doctor.

The challenge: getting patients diagnosed and accommodated without sending them to costly, inconvenient overnight Sleep Centers.

SML® works with preferred partners who can provide you with home sleep testing solutions. All are AASM-recognized and FDA-approved, to ensure a surefire, cost-effective, convenient sleep test for your patients – as well as a viable success-monitoring tool for your dentists and staff.

SML® and its preferred partners have joined together to bring you this simple screening system – an easy, accurate way for you to rapidly evaluate the need for a sleep specialist, help ensure a successful diagnostic outcome (whatever the treatment and/or appliance choice) and eliminate large outpatient deductibles.