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Are you famous for misplacing your keys? Forgetting birthdays? Do you struggle to remember names or even the emails you read the day before? How are you sleeping these days? If you suspect that you have sleep apnea, it just might be stealing your memory!

Every single moment of your waking day, stimuli is pours into your mind. At night, your sleeping mind catalogues and consolidates these memories, essentially anchoring the more important ones in your mind so you can remember them in the morning.

If you have sleep apnea, you could be waking up hundreds of times a night and never entering into the important REM and slow-wave sleep cycles that are necessary for filtering and consolidating memories.

So…

As a periodontist, you are on the forefront of fighting gum disease. Since gum disease is the leading cause of tooth loss, you more than any other type of dentist, fight to save your patients’ beautiful smiles. In cases where saving teeth isn’t possible, you use your knowledge and skill to place implants so a patient can smile with confidence.

Part of building your new practice includes stocking up on the right supplies so you’ll always be ready no matter what patient walks through your door or what unforeseen complication arises. At Space Maintainers Laboratories, we want to be your periodontal appliance provider. Our worldwide network of dental laboratories means you can get the supplies you need quickly and…

If you find that you need to move a patient’s tooth labially, your first thought might be to use a micro-screw.  Not your only option!

The Recurved Finger Spring is a great alternative to a micro-screw. It can be designed to help push a tooth forward so that it lines up evenly with the rest of the teeth – and can also be fabricated to correct minor rotations.

You can easily activate the springs. Just use a pair of 139 Bird-Beak pliers to pull forward on the spring’s arm.  If the tooth in question is decidedly vertical, you’ll want to leave the acrylic over the top of the finger spring. If the lingual incline of the tooth is shallow, then you can place the composite ledge on the…

Let’s say that you have a young patient who requires a stainless steel crown  – and needs to maintain arch length after the premature loss of a primary tooth. How do you address both issues? The easiest solution is to use a fixed crown and loop appliance offered by SML dental labs.

Our appliance consists of a crown fused to a space maintainer loop. To prevent the molar from tipping, the space maintainer generally has a rest that seats on the adjacent tooth.

At SML, we offer a network of high quality, highly reliable dental labs across the world – all ready to deliver the custom-made crown and loop appliances your patients need. You can choose to provide a prepared crown (our recommended method) or we can fit…

According to the National Sleep Foundation, over 18 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, a condition that causes interrupted breathing during sleep. Those with sleep apnea may wake up hundreds of times a night when their airway becomes obstructed. As a result, they spend little time in deep, restorative sleep and often feel tired and drained during the day.

Most doctors first suggest continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for sleep apnea patients, but this treatment requires the patient to strap a sleep pressure mask over their nose before sleep. Many patients have trouble sleeping with the mask or don’t like the feel of the straps on their face. A second and well-regarded…