Airwayease MAS
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Hello , My name is Chris Kelly and I am the owner of Orthoplant Dental laboratories in Sydney, Australia. My purpose today is to give out information on the Airwayease MAS. I have been making devices as a dental technician for the application of snoring for about 8 years.
My goal has always been to help with the problem of sleep apnea. I have always been passionate about the issue of correct treatment for the problem and as such I have given talks on the various types of appliances available and how effective, (or not) they can be when the subject of sleep apnea comes up regarding a patient.
My approach back then as it is now, is that anyone who snores, needs to be assessed correctly so that their particular dysfunction is identified and prescribed correctly. As a result of this I have always asked my dentist ordering an appliance to confirm that the patient has been assessed by a sleep lab. This advice is always taken with consideration as the dentist knows how serious I am about this issue. I suffer from apnea myself and so does 2 other members of my family. We have all been off to see the sleep doctor and we have different degrees of apnea.
My frustration is that the sleep labs do not cater for the precise diagnosis of what part is oral what part is nasal and what part is central. My mission has been to find an answer to help the situation and I have gotten this far, we all need to consider that the patient is not just oxygen deprived. The patient is also suffering a list of "effects" because of this oxygen deprivation, and these effects will continue after the patient has gone through the process of getting used to their own portable life support system. I mean the last comment with all due respect, but lets face it, the CPAP etc machines are all very much portable life support systems, and not all apnea cases need this in their life.
Now I guess by now you might be thinking, "oh no another clown trying to say that MAS devices will do the job of CPAP" but you would be wrong. I think that there is space in the world for thinking that CPAP can be assisted with a decent and intelligently constructed oral appliance. This appliance will help the airway to be optimised by mandibular advancement in a 3D sense, and further more the AIRWAYEASE MAS will bring the "new" benefit of being adjustable in a 3D sense to refine the position of the airway after it has been constructed. This is possible due to the incorporation of vertical adjustment as well as horizontal adjustment components, that are interchangeable so that the correct position can be refined out of the hypothesised bite recording.
The other thing that I have been mandated with is longevity for this appliance. The hard truth is that a dentist is going to charge a hefty fee for his time as do other professionals, but until now the appliances have not been worthy of this charge, they just have not been made out of the "right stuff" for too long.
Their are many reasons for this, the foremost ones are that the devices have been "engineered" by professionals who are not equipped to engineer the device. Others have employed technicians to design and choose the materials for them, believing that the technician will make a premium appliance, except they have neglected to throw into the mix this fact; if you are a technician who is brilliant at your work but you have no background in the design of MAS and no background in the practise of sleep medicine, then how do you provide a solution to the original design question.
All the boil and bite splints will last 10- 11 months if you're lucky, before they are too disgusting to wear, the custom made splints have all good intentions, but if you ignore the fact they have not evovled as far as the AIRWAYEASE MAS when it comes to the postioning of the bite, then you just can not get past the fact that these things cost between $500.00 and $700.00 AU from the lab $1200.00 to $ 1500.00 AU from the dentist, and then they only last 1year before they fail because they (a) are thermforms, (b) are made out of orthodontic acrylic, or (c) they are a combination of both.
These very expensive appliances look great when delivered, and may even work to some extent, after they have been tolerated, but inevitably fail. The AIRWAYEASE MAS is made out of a flexible heat polymerised injected MMA resin, that feels like a mouthguard, but has no other similarities beyond this point.
The AIRWAYEASE MAS will last for years, in the same way dentures do, but without the chipping or cracking or breaking, because it is soft and it remains this way, because it is stable in its polymerisation and we have proved that under normal mouth conditions it will not tear even in the mouth of a bruxer. Now for the reason I have written all the above; I have a dream that the ENT, sleep specialist, and dentist will realise, as my clients do, that the CPAP user may sometimes need to have an oral device to protect their teeth whilst wearing CPAP, the thing that is being ignored at the present is that the introduction of air to the oral system is damaging to the teeth, due to drying and bacterial attack, because of the air being pumped into the mouth. The bruxers who wear CPAP also will suffer tooth damage, and the ones in the middle will potentially begin parafunctional activity on their teeth as a result of their teeth being held in closer proximity than when they were unknown snoring mouth breathers.
The AIRWAYEASE MAS protects the teeth from dessication because of its shape. Please find out more about the AIRWAYEASE MAS at the link written below,