RETRACTED ARTICLE: Management of obstructive sleep apnea in an edentulous patient with a combination of mandibular advancement splint and tongue-retaining device: a clinical report

Abstract

This clinical report describes a clinical and laboratory method for producing a new functional splint combining a MAS and a tongue-retaining device with a custom-made tongue-tip housing and discusses the rationale for using such a device.

Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in an Edentulous Lower Jaw Patient with a Mandibular Advancement Device

“…The literature revealed a fewer numbers of therapeutic strategies used in the treatment of edentulous patients with OSA [3–5, 7, 8]. This paper describes the clinical procedure of fabrication of a modified MAD for edentulous lower jaw patient with OSA and evaluates these results.…”

“…The use of intraoral appliances can be in form of soft palate lifting and tongue-retaining devices (TRD) [3, 4]. Among the entire range of appliances, MAD is the more commonly used and studied appliance.…”

“…Kurtulmus and Cotert [3] described a new functional splint combining a MAD and a TRD. Piskin et al [5] reported modified MAD which displaces bulky masseter muscles laterally to provide more space for the tongue in edentulous patients.…”

Cephalometric Evaluation of the Effect of Complete Dentures on Retropharyngeal Space and Its Effect on Spirometric Values in Altered Vertical Dimension

“…Many researchers advocated that increase in posterior airway space could be achieved by advancing the mandible forward with or without the use of tongue retaining device and without increasing the vertical dimension of occlusion [15–18]. A mandibular advancement splint was used for edentulous obstructive sleep apnea patient using clinical procedures that were similar to those for fabricating a conventional complete denture without increasing the vertical dimension of occlusion.…”

Efficacy of a modified mandibular advancement device for a totally edentulous patient with severe obstructive sleep apnea

“…They reported improvement of patient compliances based on subjective data such as patient history without polysomnography. Kurtulmus and Cotert [17] fabricated a combination of TRD and MAD for a totally edentulous patient with mild OSAS. They did not report any difficulties regarding stability and usage of the device such as Nayar and Knox [16].…”