Oral appliances: An odds-on in obstructive sleep apnoea management

Abstract

Breathing affiliated with sleep disorders usually lies between simple snoring without sleepiness, upper airway resistance syndrome, obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) syndrome, and hypercapnic respiratory failure. Of all these, OSA is very often accompanied with morning symptoms and extension of comorbidities and mortalities with a high prevalence rate. General health implications and an altered quality of living are the major setbacks. Mostly patients with neurologic disorders are affected. There are many surgical and non-surgical approaches concerned with its management. This review article provides a description of oral appliances along with recent treatment modalities, clinical efficacy of alternative treatment modalities of OSA patients.