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SPOTLIGHT: USING CPAP 

While dental sleep medicine has emerged as a significant player in the field of sleep apnea treatment, there are still hundreds of thousands of people around the world using some form of positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy to treat their sleep breathing disorders. 

Check out these posts related to using PAP, especially CPAP (but including BiPAP, APAP, ASV, CPAP accessories, the big business of CPAP, legislation and insurance concerns, and more).  

This week's links were published or updated between 8.1.16 and 8.31.16.

AUG 3 || THE SLEEP ZONE
Avoiding Red Marks from a CPAP Mask

AUG 4 || HELLO GIGGLES
Why I decided to embrace my CPAP machine

AUG 8 || THE SLEEP ZONE

Live Healthier with the SoClean Machine

AUG 9 || FOX NEWS HEALTH
Online marketplace offers cheaper CPAP machines without a prescription

AUG 9 || SOUND SLEEP HEALTH
5 things you need to know: Central Apnea & ASV therapy

AUG 10 || HOME CARE
Proof of Medical Necessity No Longer Required for Replacement CPAP or RAD Accessories

AUG 10 || THE SLEEP ZONE
Summer Travel with a Mini CPAP Machine

AUG 10 || TWIN CITIES BUSINESS
Report: If You Suffer From Sleep Apnea, Don’t Buy A Breathing Device Online

AUG 11 || SLEEP REVIEW
Study Raises Safety Concerns Over the Online Sale of Secondhand CPAP Devices

AUG 11 || SOUND SLEEP HEALTH
When is oxygen therapy performed in a sleep lab?

AUG 16 || MEDSCAPE MULTISPECIALTY
Oral Appliance Therapy in OSA: A Better Way to Ensure Success

AUG 17 || THE SLEEP ZONE
The New CPAPgel Improves Sleep Experience

AUG 18 || MOBI HEALTH NEWS
ResMed launches app for CPAP users to track sleep apnea treatment

AUG 19 || LEXOLOGY

ResMed Files New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Sleep-Disordered Breathing Treatment Mask Systems

AUG 19 || SLEEP RESOLUTIONS

Checking your CPAP Machine Filters: Replacement and Cleaning

AUG 19 || THE SLEEP ZONE
Is Your CPAP Causing Dry Mouth?

AUG 22 || SLEEP RESOLUTIONS
How do I know when it's time to get a new CPAP mask?

AUG 22 || SLEEP REVIEW
Urbanization, Pollution Driving Respiratory Care Device Market

AUG 22 || THE SLEEP ZONE
CPAP Myths Busted

AUG 23 || PRESS RELEASE ROCKET
Inventor and InventHelp Client Creates Storage Accessory for CPAP Mask (LCC-3123)

AUG 23 || RESPSHOP
CPAP masks & machines: What's best for you?

AUG 23 || RESPSHOP
Top ten reasons to use CPAP machine

AUG 24 || NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RECORD
Resmed Corp. alleged to have infringed patents with CPAP machines

AUG 26 || THE SLEEP ZONE
A-Flex, C-Flex, EPR: What’s the Difference?

AUG 27 || NEWSDAY
Ailing mother gets breathing machine

AUG 28 || 9 NEWS
World’s largest sleep disorder study finds breathing machines can improve severe depression in sufferers

AUG 28 || SLEEP RESOLUTIONS
How do I know when it's time to get a new CPAP mask?

AUG 28 || DISPATCH
Emergency Medicine: Traveling without CPAP machine puts man in jeopardy

AUG 29 || BOTTOM LINE INC
Don’t Fall For This Sleep Apnea Trap

AUG 29 || THE SLEEP ZONE
Learning to Love Your CPAP

AUG 30 || THE NEWS-GAZETTE
Hoopeston man's invention could be a sleeper hit

AUG 31 || SLEEP REVIEW
No Cardiovascular Benefits from CPAP, Study Finds; Quality of Life Improves

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