Breathing Bite Beauty & Blog
Restoration of Missed Milestones in Airway Development for Sleep
About a year ago, I attended the World Sleep Congress as one of the keynote speakers. The selection was a surprising honor for me. I felt grateful to present as a surgeon. It wasn’t always that surgeons had a recognized role in the treatment of patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
When I first Dr. Nelson Powell, my career mentor, he told me about a debate between surgery and medicine’s roles in the treatment of OSA, featured in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
Aligning Maxillary Expansion with Nasal Breathing
Over 3 consecutive weekends, I spoke, taught, and learned of contemporary updates in naso-maxillary expansion, at the AAOMS, AAO-ISSS, and AHUL. Coincidentally, they all took place in Florida, my new home base.
HGNS Inspire(s) Next Gen Surgeons
“Let’s write something on hypoglossal nerve stimulation…comparing those who had prior interventions versus not.” —Dr. Corissa Chang, sometime in 2019.
I was Corissa’s research mentor at Stanford during her gap year, before she started medical school and oral & maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) residency at the University of Pennsylvania...
Scholarship in the Information Age
Welcome to my first blog post! I invite you to return often and engage as I reflect on a variety of topics from MMA to mobile apps and DOME to biodesign.
Today’s musings are inspired by a multi-talented young man, Logan Wang, who designed and built this site, and also recommended that this long-standing professor establish a Google Scholar profile...