The brain controls the upper airways opening during sleep, contracting the muscles of the pharynx to maintain air circulation. These muscles are attached to a mobile bone, the mandible.
Mandibular movements reveal the changes in the trigeminal motor nucleus activity driven by brainstem centers. They are a direct proxy of how the sleeping centers in the brain regulate sleep & respiration, informing about the major events required for characterizing sleep disordered breathing:
1 As published in the renowned Blue Journal
Publiée en 2022
In OSA patients, MM signals facilitated the measurement of specific levels of RE associated with obstructive, central or mixed apneas and/or hypopneas. A high degree of similarity was observed with the PES gold-standard signal.
Publiée en 2022
The diagnosis of OSA, using MM with machine learning analysis, is comparable to manually scored in-home PSG. Therefore, this novel monitor could be a convenient diagnostic tool that can easily be used in the patients’ own home.
Publiée en 2021
Sleep bruxism can be reliably identified, quantified, and characterized with mandibular jaw movements when subjected to automated analysis supported by Artificial Intelligence technology.
Publiée en 2021
The algorithm classified sleep epochs with substantial qualitative agreement with manual PSG scorers. A sleep stage-wise ROC curve analysis confirmed the well-balanced performance for each target sleep stage.
Publiée en 2020
The performance of Sunrise not only favorably compares with but also, in many instances, surpasses the performance of other fully automated diagnostic devices.
Publiée en 2021
MM automated analysis shows significant promise to diagnose moderate-to-severe pediatric OSA.
Publiée en 2020
Mandibular movements recording allows to identify not only OSA and RERA, but also bruxism.
Publiée en 2020
Sleep bruxism can be identified, quantified, and characterized with mandibular movements analysis supported by artificial intelligence.
Publiée en 2020
Mandibular movements are correlated with the key PSG indexes and contribute as importantly as AHI, RDI and ODI for the diagnosis and severity stratification of OSAS.
Publiée en 2020
Mandibular movements recording are the most important contributors for optimized OSAS screening approach, when interfaced with self-reported symptoms and co-morbidities.
Publiée en 2019
The study of mandibular movements during sleep provides precise information on the change in apnoea / hypopnoea indices during mandibular advancement device titration in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea.
“Given the night-to-night variability of in-lab polysomnography and the variability among expert scorers of polysomnography, the new technique provides data within a range that could reliably be used clinically.”
“The performance of Sunrise, not only favourably compares with, but also, in many instances, surpasses the performance of other fully automated diagnostic devices.”