At The Center for Sound Sleep, home sleep monitoring has two important roles. First, home sleep recorders are a wonderful way to screen for obstructive sleep apnea without having a sleep study, called a polysomnogram (PSG), done in a sleep laboratory. While only a PSG can give an official diagnosis for obstructive sleep apnea, our home sleep recorder, called a Watch PAT provides comparable information to a polysomnogram and can let us know if a visit to a sleep lab is necessary.

Secondly, home sleep monitoring allows us to verify the success of oral appliance therapy in the patients we treat. Oral appliance therapy should never be performed without a follow-up to confirm the level of success of the therapy. It is possible for an oral appliance to virtually eliminate snoring and have the patient feel remarkably improved during the daytime. However, the patient may still unknowingly suffer from residual sleep apnea. The home sleep recorder ensures that we accurately measure the level of success of our therapy.