Revisão bibliográfica sobre apneia do sono e sua relação com a odontologia.

Abstract

The obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is a disease that has been much discussed in Brazil and in the world nowadays, because it commits 5% of world population. The disorders that involve the sleep has high prevalence, but there is a great deficiency for being a new area, even with a great need for more specific and embracing studies in the diagnosis and treatment that includes the disease as a whole. Its risks cause a great deficit for the population, since they present both cardiovascular and behavioral morbidity and these mortality rates are representing complications such as hypertension, acute myocardial infarction, stroke and sudden death. The objective of this study was to conduct a review of the literature describing the importance of the multidisciplinary approach on the performance of dental surgeons in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea. Recently the treatment through devices is growing in number of studies that prove their efficiency, with their specific characteristics for each case and also the correct placement of the dental surgeon. In this review we analyzed the books in the central library of the Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul - UNISC and on the virtual library Elsevier Evolution. It is concluded that the majority of studies show that both the devices intra-oral and oral surgeries are an alternative for the treatment of OSAS, increasing their efficiency when combined with multidisciplinary alternatives, aiming to improve the quality of the life of patients in a whole.