Sleep Apnea Treatment in Atlanta, GA
Christian Loetscher, DDS, MS
Our approach
Is your partner’s snoring keeping you awake? Do you wake up feeling exhausted and irritable, even after a full night’s sleep? The solution to your problem could be a sleep apnea treatment with Dr. Loetscher. With proper treatment, patients can significantly reduce the symptoms of this condition, for a safer, more comfortable sleep experience.
Our level of surgical expertise and capability has been developed from years of seeking the best training, technologies, and materials available. We have accumulated one of the best surgical teams in existence. We deliver the highest standard of surgery through refined protocols, innovative technology, and a truly superior level of patient care.
Few oral surgery centers in the United States can claim to have achieved as superior and innovative a practice as Atlanta’s Institute for Surgical Correction of Sleep Apnea and Airway Disorders.
Dr. Loetscher uses the latest treatment methods and surgical techniques to bring patients relief, often enabling sleep apnea treatment without CPAP or any other devices.
What is Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder where airflow and oxygenation is partially or completely blocked due to obstructions in the airway. This obstruction can be found at many sites in the airway. For example, the obstructions can be due to abnormally large tonsils, adenoids, tongue, narrowed nasal passages and/or the abnormal position of the upper and lower jaw bones. The position of the upper and lower jaw plays a critical role in the airway space and obstructive sleep apnea. If during development, your upper and/or lower jaw does not grow in the proper trajectory, your airway space may become limited and lead to obstructive sleep apnea.
One of the most effective treatments for obstructive sleep apnea is called maxillomandibular advancement. This is a surgery that surgically repositions the upper and lower jaw bones which dramatically increases your airway space. Studies have shown this surgery to have a 98% success rate for treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. Patients breathe better not only during the night but throughout the day due to the anatomical improvement in their airway.
Why Treat My Sleep Apnea?
Untreated obstructive sleep apnea has many serious health implications. OSA has been linked to development of high blood pressure, arrhythmias, temporomandibular disorder, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, stroke, heart attack and Alzheimer’s disease. Deep sleep has been linked to decreasing your risk of development of Neurocognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s. Early diagnosis and treatment is crucial to decreasing your risk of developing serious systemic diseases.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?
Dr. Loetscher has unparalleled experience in Orthognathic Surgery and surgical correction of sleep apnea. Surgical correction of sleep apnea via orthognathic surgery is performed on a weekly basis by their team.
The gold standard for surgical correction of sleep apnea involves advancing the upper and lower jaws via orthognathic surgery. Dr. Loetscher and Dr. Cho are two of the most experienced surgeons in the area in this regard.
We have set up a state of the art facility built specifically to perform these procedures in a state of the art environment.
Dr. Loetscher is thoroughly trained in the diagnosis and surgical correction of airway disease.
