| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We investigated whether it is possible to the predict the therapeutic effect of oral appliance (OA) therapy by using a respiratory airway resistance-measuring instrument used in the field of respiratory medicine, prior to clarifying the therapeutic effect, adverse reactions, and compliance of mobile OA therapy for integrated OA. Integrated optical spectrometry tests were conducted for patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In our analysis of the correlation between apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) and viscous resistance, we found that the AHI of patients with OSA tended to increase as viscous resistance increased. We also found that the AHI could be easily reduced in patients in whom viscous resistance could be easily reduced with OA therapy. This shows that the therapeutic effect of OA can be predicted on the basis of the rate of improvement in viscous resistance by performing measurements using a forward movement simulator.
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