Dental appliances for sleep apnea

Dr. Martin Denbar is a native Texan, born and raised in Houston. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Houston and his postgraduate education at the University of Texas Dental School in Houston. Dr. Denbar served with the United States Navy Dental Corps at Camp Pendleton, California, and with the Third Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan. During his tour of duty in Japan, he was the battalion dentist for the Second Division, Ninth Regiment Fleet Marine Force in the northern Pacific for 5 months.

Dr. Denbar has been in private practice since 1977, practicing comprehensive and cosmetic dentistry. For the last nearly 5 years Dr. Denbar has limited his practice to treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea with oral appliances.

In 1995 Dr. Denbar entered the new field of Oral Appliance Therapy for the treatment of sleep apnea and introduced the therapy to the Central Texas area. Since that time he has helped to develop this field as a past member of the Board of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine. He is a lecturer, publisher, and teacher to medical and dental students, physicians, and dentists.

Dr. Denbar has over 23 years of experience treating the simplest to most severe cases of sleep apnea. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Texas A&M School of Medicine, he will be instructing medical students about Oral Appliance Therapy.