While everyone suffering from a sleep-related breathing disorder has some physical consequence to the repetitive interruption in the flow of life-giving oxygen, sometimes the effects have larger social consequences than others.  This patient, who could not tolerate CPAP experienced very significant daytime sleepiness from her disorder.  So why is this such a big deal?  She happens to be a school bus driver!  The level of daytime sleepiness she experienced placed her at the same risk of having a traffic accident as a drunk driver.

Oral appliance therapy completely resolved her daytime sleepiness and reduced it from a dangerously high of 16 on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale to a very normal 6.

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