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I'd never heard of this procedure, just the approach of using a dental appliance to advance the jaw, with poor success rate (something like 20%). The only surge
by 0xcde4c3db 8y ago
I'd never heard of this procedure, just the approach of using a dental appliance to advance the jaw, with poor success rate (something like 20%). The only surgery I've seen widely referenced is turbinate reduction, which supposedly also has a < 50% success rate in treating OSA. I'm surprised I'd never heard of MMA since it apparently does have a very good success rate even without diluting the analysis with practically meaningless effect sizes (mean AHI reduction of 47.8 in a recent meta-analysis [1]).
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26606321 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26606321
- Hydraulix989 8y agoDo you have a reference RE poor success rate of mandibular advancement dental appliance? I'm curious because I also had the same poor result when I tried one.