In the Media Tag: sleep medicine


Dr. Alan Blanton Heads UTHSC Dental Sleep Medicine Center

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Dr. Alan Blanton, who was diagnosed with moderate obstructive sleep apnea, 11 years ago, today is director of the William F. Slagle Center for Dental Sleep Medicine and Orofacial Pain in the College of Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.


Sleep Disorder Treatments Still Face Challenges

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It is not uncommon that a sleep specialist discovers that a patient has other health issues resulting from sleep deficiency, according to Amado Freire, MD, professor and chief of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine.