Sleep Apnea and Your Bottom Line
Obstructive sleep apnea affects over 18 million people in the United States alone. These people can suffer from heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and depression. Additionally, when untreated, sleep apnea causes excessive daytime sleepiness leading to accidental injury and lost productivity.
It has been estimated that employees wth untreated sleep apnea can increase employer's healthcare costs by $2000 to $5000 annually in physician visits, medication costs and increased hospitalizations. Employees with sleep apnea are more likely to have an accident at work, perform less well than their non-drowsy counterparts and are absent more frequently than other employees.
Sleepiness has been implicated in such major disasters as Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez and Bhopal.
If your business employs drivers it has been calculated that drivers with sleep apnea have an up to 15 fold increase of motor vehicle accidents which can be reduced or eliminated with proper treatment.
What can you do? First, the dentists associated with Snoring Isn't Sexy(tm) are well versed in screening, and if appropriate as decided in joint consultation with the patient's physician, treating the problem with an oral appliance.
Second, many dentists associated with Snoring Isn't Sexy(tm) will be adding sleep apnea screeners to their new web sites in the fall of 2008. Although these screeners are not at the dentists' web sites as yet, you can have your employees screened free of charge at our sister site's screener at Quietsleep.com.
Finally, if there are no dentists in your area that provide screening and treatment of snoring and sleep apnea, please let us know and we will do everything we can to point them to the proper continuing education.
It's your employees' health and your bottom line. Please help us, help you!
Dr. Barsh
It has been estimated that employees wth untreated sleep apnea can increase employer's healthcare costs by $2000 to $5000 annually in physician visits, medication costs and increased hospitalizations. Employees with sleep apnea are more likely to have an accident at work, perform less well than their non-drowsy counterparts and are absent more frequently than other employees.
Sleepiness has been implicated in such major disasters as Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez and Bhopal.
If your business employs drivers it has been calculated that drivers with sleep apnea have an up to 15 fold increase of motor vehicle accidents which can be reduced or eliminated with proper treatment.
What can you do? First, the dentists associated with Snoring Isn't Sexy(tm) are well versed in screening, and if appropriate as decided in joint consultation with the patient's physician, treating the problem with an oral appliance.
Second, many dentists associated with Snoring Isn't Sexy(tm) will be adding sleep apnea screeners to their new web sites in the fall of 2008. Although these screeners are not at the dentists' web sites as yet, you can have your employees screened free of charge at our sister site's screener at Quietsleep.com.
Finally, if there are no dentists in your area that provide screening and treatment of snoring and sleep apnea, please let us know and we will do everything we can to point them to the proper continuing education.
It's your employees' health and your bottom line. Please help us, help you!
Dr. Barsh
posted by Dr. Larry Barsh at
6:36 AM
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