{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Protrusive Dental Podcast","title":"Putting the ENT into dENTistry – PDP272","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3575,"description":"Sleep, Airway and Mouth Breathing: An ENT’s Guide for Dentists\nCould a “normal” sleep study still be missing your patient’s airway problem?\nWhy do women and children with real symptoms keep scoring “mild”?\nShould a mouth-breathing child see a myofunctional therapist — or an ENT first?\nAnd which four questions screen a child for sleep problems in under a minute?\nThe roof of the mouth is the floor of the nose — so ENT and dentistry should be in constant dialogue. In practice, they rarely are. In this one, Dr David McIntosh — an Australian ear, nose and throat surgeon with a deep niche in sleep-disordered breathing — makes the case for why that has to change, and gives dentists practical ways to screen and refer. He is direct, analogy-rich and doesn’t mince words; expect a few positions that cut against the grain of how sleep apnoea is usually handled.\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/QVEc0ocxTCc\nWatch PDP272 on YouTube\nProtrusive Dental Pearl: When the Numbers Mislead\nDentists love data — the AHI, the cut-offs (over 5 is mild, over 30 is severe). But take those numbers with a pinch of salt: the thresholds are arbitrary, and a single score tells you nothing about why a patient has the problem.\nThey don’t account for individual variability — especially in women and children, where a mild score can sit right alongside significant symptoms. Read the number with the anatomy and the phenotype — the clinical signs and the airway assessment — never instead of them.\nWhat You’ll Take From This Episode\nThis conversation reframes sleep-disordered breathing from a number on a report into something you can localise and refer. \n\nA sleep study tells you IF, not WHY — sleep-disordered breathing is the whole spectrum; a normal study doesn’t mean normal breathing.\nPhenotyping the airway — map the individual anatomical causes instead of trusting a single score.\nWhy women get missed — the gender bias built into standard adult screening tools, and what to ask instead.\nThe four-question filter for...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hLSIeRiYSp0oTfIk0BzEukFutShD18hH3f6fq4QHsWw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZmM0/ZTNjYzdiZDJhNGFj/MzBiYmU2NTUwNmM2/NzQ2My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}