Dental Sleep Medicine Insider February 2016 | Page 26

DENTAL SLEEP SOLUTIONS AND BLACKSTONE ENTER STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

GETTING YOUR PATIENTS
TESTED HAS NEVER BEEN
D

ental Sleep Solutions
and Blackstone Medical
Services have entered
into a strategic partnership.
The partnership between
the organizations provides
a seamless home sleep
testing model for dental
sleep medicine practitioners
across the United States, the
companies say.
Dentistry’s primary treatment
modality
for
snoring
and sleep apnea is oral
appliance therapy. A barrier
to entry has been getting
the patients quickly tested.
The Dental Sleep SolutionsBlackstone Medical Services
partnership provides dental
sleep medicine practices
with a seamless sleep testing
solution,
including
onstaff board certified sleep
physicians who are available
to answer questions, the
companies say.
Additionally, Dental Sleep
Solutions’ cloud-based DS3
System now allows dentists
to order home sleep tests
from Blackstone Medical
with the click of a button.
Once the study is completed,
the report is uploaded by
the Blackstone team into the
Dentist’s DS3 System.

EASIER

Vick Tipnes, CEO and founder
of
Blackstone
Medical
Services, says in a release,
“We are extremely passionate
about
helping
dentists
deliver a better continuum
of care to their patients.
The correct delivery model
for HST for dentists doesn’t
really exist, so we are
committed to creating the
best options for them to
deliver the best care to
their
patients—essentially
to create that ideal model.

“We are extremely passionate about
helping dentists deliver a better
continuum of care to their patients.”
-Vick Tipnes
Blackstone and DS3 are
working on making the HST
ordering process as simple
and effective as possible for
your practice, so you don’t
have too much attention
on testing and can focus
on treatment. Additionally,
Blackstone is actively working
on another partnership
to bring online physician
consults for patients who
require a physician to write
a prescription for an HST.”

Jiten
Master,
DDS,
Blackstone’s COO and a
prosthodontist,
left
his
dental practice because,
in his words: “Dentists are
well positioned to make an
impact in the diagnosis and
treatment of obstructive
sleep apnea, a significantly
under-diagnosed and lifethreatening condition.

“Dentists are well positioned to
make an impact in the diagnosis and
treatment of obstructive sleep apnea,
a significantly under-diagnosed
and life threatening condition.”
-Jiten Master
When left unidentified and
untreated, this condition has
a high cost on the patient in
terms of quality of life and
significant sums of money
to the healthcare system. As
dentists we see our patients
more frequently than our
physician counterparts, and
so we have the ability to
effectively screen, identify,
and
educate
patients.
Blackstone’s purpose to
reduce the barriers to sleep
testing helps dentists, in turn
help more of their patients.”

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