Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, oral radiology, and endodontics
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Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod · Mar 2009
Relationship between severity of sleep-disordered breathing and craniofacial morphology in Japanese male patients.
The objective of this study was to assess the influence of factors of obesity and craniofacial morphology on the degree of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) in Japanese individuals. ⋯ In Japanese male OSAS patients, skeletal abnormalities are thought to be the factors that most greatly affect severity of OSAS.