Current Standards
This document establishes the newest standards for screening, treatment, and management of sleep-related breathing disorders in adults using oral appliance therapy, published in the Journal of Dental Sleep Medicine (2025).
What's Inside:
2025 Teledentistry Update: New guidance balances innovation with patient safety, clarifying that while virtual appointments can improve access for screening, education, and follow-up, three critical components require in-person care to ensure treatment accuracy and success: comprehensive examination, precise dental impressions, and bite registration.
This document provides guidance on several emerging therapies for OSA and snoring in both adults and children including expansion, myofunctional orthodontics, buccal or lingual frenum releases, myofunctional therapy, and ablative or nonablative laser therapy.
This document defines compliance with oral appliance therapy and reviews appropriate ways of measuring compliance.
This document outlines the most clinically useful methods for identifying the therapeutic position of an oral appliance and provides a protocol on how to use each method.
This document provides recommendations for managing side effects of OAT.
This document provides guidance on what key design features an effective oral appliance should include. The definition and consensus report were originally published in 2014 and was updated in 2019 to reflect latest evidence and clinical practice.
View Current Definition (PDF) View Consensus Conference Report
The AADSM has issued statements on reimbursement of oral appliance therapy (OAT), both as a first-line therapy for obstructive sleep apnea and in cases of CPAP intolerance.
These special articles were first published in the Journal of Dental Sleep Medicine in 2019.
OAT Should be Reimbursed as a First-Line Therapy for OSA (PDF) OAT Should be Reimbursed After CPAP Intolerance (PDF)
Archive
AADSM clinical practice guidelines are periodically reviewed for content and relevance to ensure the field has the most up-to-date information and guidance. When more current guidelines are available, outdated guidelines are archived. A list of archived guidelines can be accessed below.