Obstructive sleep apnea in adults

J Faber, C Faber, AP Faber - Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
ABSTRACT Introduction: Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Hypopnea Syndrome (OSAS) is a
highly prevalent disease with serious consequences for the patients' lives. The treatment of …

Relationship between cephalometric parameters and the apnoea–hypopnoea index in OSA patients: a retrospective cohort study

C Stipa, M Cameli, G Sorrenti… - European Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objective The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between cephalometric
parameters and apnoea–hypopnoea index (AHI) controlling for the effect of gender, age …

Locating anatomical landmarks on 2D lateral cephalograms through adversarial encoder-decoder networks

X Dai, H Zhao, T Liu, D Cao, L Xie - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Locating anatomical landmarks in a cephalometric X-ray image is a crucial step in
cephalometric analysis. Manual landmark localization suffers from inter-and intra-observer …

Elevated hyoid bone position in response to mandibular advancing appliance predicts effectiveness of the appliance for obstructive sleep apnea

EK Pae, RM Harper - Frontiers in Dental Medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The objective was to determine whether hyoid bone elevation induced by an anterior
mandibular positioning appliance (AMP) predicts the effectiveness of the AMP in patients …

Orthodontics as a therapeutic tool for managing sleep apnea: A review

AH Mirhashemi, S Arab, R Bahrami - Journal of Craniomaxillofacial …, 2020 - jcr.tums.ac.ir
Introduction: Sleep apnea is a disorder in which the person's breathing is interrupted
periodically at night due to the physical blockage of the airway. Determining the best way to …

Classification of Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea based on X-ray images analysis by Quasi-conformal Geometry

HL Chan, HM Yuen, CT Au, KCC Chan, AM Li… - Pattern Recognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Craniofacial profile is one of the anatomical causes of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). By
medical research, cephalometry provides information on patients' skeletal structures and soft …

[HTML][HTML] Association between the intensity of obstructive sleep apnea and skeletal alterations in the face and hyoid bone

MM Soares, FL Romano, FV Dias, JF Souza… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Introduction The association between the intensity of obstructive sleep apnea and skeletal
alterations in the face and hyoid bone is still scarcely addressed in the literature. Objective …

Influence of natural hyoid bone position and surgical repositioning on upper airway patency: a computational finite element modeling study

D Salman, J Amatoury - Journal of Applied Physiology, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The hyoid bone's inferior baseline position in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has led to
surgical hyoid repositioning (SHR) treatment, yet outcomes vary widely. The influence of …

The Application of Ultrasound to Quantify Hyoid Motion During Drug‐Induced Sleep Endoscopy

MH Parekh, E Thuler, V Triantafillou, E Seay… - The …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The significance of hyoid dynamics in OSA pathophysiology remains unclear.
Drug‐induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) is often used for evaluating patients intolerant to …

Craniofacial and upper airway morphological characteristics associated with the presence and severity of obstructive sleep apnea in Chinese children

Q Xu, X Wang, N Li, Y Wang, X Xu, J Guo - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objectives To identify craniofacial and upper airway morphological characteristics
associated with the presence and severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children …