How to help your patients with TMD & Sleep Problems
This is how Mountains TMJ & Dental Sleep Medicine can help your patients…
At Mountains TMJ & Dental Sleep Medicine, Dr Baret offers TMDisorder therapy, Sleep Apnea treatment, Jaw Growth Guidance in early developmental years, General Orthodontics and Orthodontic case finishing for TMD patients in Katoomba and across the Blue Mountains. These are our only areas of focus, and we advise our patients to continue seeing their general medical practitioner and general dentist for their routine health care. We work to help your patients feel better, and we know that working with their medical practitioner, general dentist, and other specialists, is essential to maintaining overall good general, dental and TMD, Respiratory and Sleep health while working together in achieving results.
Many patients come to our office from referring dentists after a TMD screening is performed and the patient presents with limited range of motion or pain in the jaw/head/neck region. We also receive referrals from doctors, medical specialists, physical therapists and chiropractors so we can help address the patients’ Jaw and Orofacial pain while they work on correcting the rest of the body.
Often, patients with serious general health problems (particularly Cardiovascular Diseases – CVDs) also have Sleep Related Breathing Disorders (SRBDs), which exacerbate or even cause the health issue. By conservatively treating the SRBD, we can help the medical professional to achieve even better results in treating the other health issue. A wide range of health professionals refer to us after a simple screening for SRBDs – see the forms below.
One doctor cannot fix every problem; we focus on what we do best, which is TMJ, sleep, facial/jaw development, airway and craniofacial problems. We firmly believe that the only way to achieve greater health for our patients is to look at the big picture, the whole body. In order to do this, we frequently need assistance from other doctors.
Since our focus is quite specific, we typically refer out for general dental work, general medical care, speech assistance, myofunctional therapy, counselling, body work, surgical procedures and more. We are always looking for other professionals with a similar mindset who strive to offer the best level of care for their patients. We want to work together with the understanding that we, as a team, can offer the highest level of care for our patients to live pain-free, healthy and happy lives.
If you have a patient that you would like to refer to Dr. Baret, please call our office at –
+61 447 436 853 …… ( 0447 GENTLE).
Or email – trevor.baret@mdsm.com.au
OR – use the referral form below, and screen your patients for these associated conditions, using the screening forms below.