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Sleep Medicine in Cary, NC
How Much Sleep Should I be Getting?
What is Sleep Medicine?
For those patients who aren’t sleeping well or experiencing symptoms of a restless night we recommend coming in for a sleep study to evaluate your overall health and to focus on pinpointing and diagnosing a possible sleep disorder. One of our sleep medicine specialists will talk you through all the steps of the study during your initial interview.
The sleep study itself, also referred to as a polysomnogram, will look at how each patient sleeps and pinpoint patterns of both normal and abnormal sleeping patterns. The majority of sleep studies are conducted at night, when a patient is most likely to be sleeping. However, for patients who keep odd hours (e.g. night shift workers), we can also accommodate daytime sleep studies, as well.
Sleep studies are painless and only require us to place sensors on certain parts of the body to help monitor vital signs such as heart rate, respiration and brain waves. Through these sensors we are able to record and monitor your body’s activities while you sleep. Once the study is complete, we will sit down and discuss any abnormalities we might have detected and then create a treatment plan to help you get a better night’s sleep.
Common Sleep Disorders
Effective Snoring & TMJ Treatment
Even if you don’t need treatment, you might have trouble sleeping due to snoring or other types of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). If your snoring – or your spouse’s snoring – is keeping you up at night, talk to us about snore guards or one of our other available solutions.
Sometimes people don’t receive treatment for sleep apnea in time and end up suffering from other problems, such as temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD). Also known as TMJ, this problem affects the jaw and the facial muscles and nerves. Symptoms include ear pain, headaches, morning or late-afternoon jaw pain, clicking noises in the jaw and sensitive teeth. Our TMJ dentist can help you treat this disorder by providing mouth guards to keep you from clenching your jaw at night.