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By Dr. Stacy Ochoa
My Dad was CPAP intolerant & I watched my Mom & Dad's frustration with the situation as his health
deteriorated. Upon graduating dental school, I was very fortunate to spend my associateship in an office that
always had airway on the radar. We always screened for it & referred to sleep MD's so much that they came
to me & asked why I wasn't making Oral Appliance Therapy (OAT) for CPAP intolerant patients. I told them I'm
'all or nothing' & didn't have money to buy a bunch of expensive equipment to get started. I thought I had to
have a lot of bells & whistles to treat these patients. Then Jason Tierney urged me to take some courses & start
treating mild and moderate patients.
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