Sinus pain a common occurence with your CPAP use? Read Sleep and Health Journal for alternatives.

United States of America (Press Release) October 27, 2007 -- Sinus and ear pain are frequent compaints among CPAP users as is bronchitis. Many patients either quit using Or use it only occasionally. Easy answers such as impeccable daily cleaning of the CPAP machine, hoses and masks is essential according to Dr Ira L Shapira. Several of my patients have multiple sets of hoses and masks so they can soak while the patient uses a different set. The surfaces inside the hoses and mask are populated by bacterial and fungal growths as well as viruses that are blown into lungs and sinuses. Impeccable cleaning is one answer.
For patient who say I HATE CPAP! Comfortable Alternatives to CPAP are important because less than half of the patients prescribed CPAP use it on a regular basis and many do not wear it the recommended 7 1/2 hours needed for full affect. There are oral appliances that treat sleep apnea with NO HOSE, NO MASK, and NO COMPRESSOR.

Sleep and Health offers valuable information for patients seeking alternatives to CPAP. Copy and paste the links that follow to view this valuable information.

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http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/workshops/tmj_wksp.pdf (NHLBI of NIH)

Dr Shapira has been treating sleep apnea, snoring and TMJ disorders for over 25 years. He did research into the relation of jaw position to sleep apnea as a visiting assistant professor at Rush Medical Schools Sleep Disorder Center where he worked with Dr Rosalind Cartwright acknowledged as one of the most important pioneers not just of Dental Sleep Medicine but of the field of Sleep Medicine at large. He returned to Rush in the 1990's until early this century where he treated patients at the medical school.

Dr Shapira sees patients from the entire Chicagoland metropolitan area as well as long distance patients. When he was lecturing at A4M the Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine he fitted 8 Austrailian physicians with oral appliances in one day after they heard his lecture on sleep apnea in Chicago and before they left Chicago. Their wives insisted on it after a doctors wife stood up in Dr Shapira's lecture and said she had her best night of sleep because the appliance eliminated her husbands snoring.

Patients wishing to see Dr Shapira can contact his office toll free at 1-800-TM Joint, 1-8-NO-PAP-MASK or at 847-623-5530. They can find out more information on Neuromuscular Dentistry at www.ihateheadaches.org