The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recognizes comfortable oral appliances as an alternative to CPAP for patients with mild to moderate sleep apnea and for patients with severe sleep apnea who do not tolerate CPAP.

The nice things about oral appliances are there are no masks, no hoses and no noisy compressors.
CPAP is actually a marvelous invention according to sleep apnea dentist Dr Ira L Shapira. It works great for people who tolerate it. Problem is only about one third of the patients prescribed CPAP actually use it. They often only wear it a few hours a night, not the prescribed 7 1/2 hours and this is dangerous. Many do not take it with them when they travel especially since the new TSA rules have made travel with CPAP more difficult.

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Patients wanting more information on cpap appliances and dental sleep medicine should go to
www.ihatecpap.com This is the site to locate a sleep apnea dentist. I HATE CPAP is designed to help sleep apnea patients find dentists who treat sleep apnea with the dental alternative to CPAP

If you suffer from I HATE CPAP SYNDROME and are in the Chicagoland metropolitan area contact Dr Ira L Shapira to find out if you are a canidate for an oral appliance.

Get ready to say goodbye to CPAP

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