Revolutionary New Treatment for TMJ and Sleep Disorders
Dr. Perkins has developed new techniques for diagnosing and treating TMJ and sleep disorders. His passion is to improve the lives of his patients by recognizing and helping them with these problems. With more than 40 years of experience, he has found the true cause of most TMJ problems, which has drastically improved the success of his treatment. Many of his patients admit that his treatment “totally changed their lives”. Headache patients are very excited to be off their pain medications.
Meet Ronald C. Perkins, DDS, MSD
Dr. Perkins is passionate about helping patients with TMJ problems, headaches, and sleep disorders. As an orthodontist who suffered from sleep apnea himself, he had a special insight into these problems and was one of the first orthodontists to regularly treat young children for airway problems and sleep disorders. His experience in treating TMJ helped him develop the specialized techniques for treating both TMJ and sleep problems, which are often linked. As an orthodontist, he was able to see how most sleep disorders and TMJ problems develop in childhood. Unfortunately, many physicians and dentists still do not recognize these problems early enough.
After receiving a B.S. degree from Oklahoma State University, Dr. Perkins graduated from Baylor University College of Dentistry with numerous honors, including the Scholastic Honors Award for graduating in the top of his class, and the coveted Crown and Bridge Dentistry Award for clinical excellence. He continued at Baylor for his Orthodontic Specialty Degree. He then spent two years as the orthodontist for the midshipmen at the US Naval Academy, before starting in private practice.
His new passion is diagnosing and treating patients with TMJ and sleep disorders. He has been helping many people who have had extensive other treatments which did not find the real cause of their problems. What distinguishes him from other providers is that he has been suffering from these problems himself and understands them not just professionally, but also from his personal experience.
On a personal note, Dr. Perkins loves life and it shows in everything he does. He enjoys skiing and scuba diving and has a special love of sunsets. His talent for making beautiful smiles is matched only by his talent for making people smile, feel better, and improve their quality of life.
Dr. Perkins has been published in orthodontic and dental sleep publications. Read how he developed his techniques in the sleep disorder article below for an example. He also lectures extensively locally and around the country. Visit the Seminars page.
Dr. Perkins’ goal is to involve more orthodontists in treating young children early in their lives to help prevent the devastating problems from developing later, therefore he lectures extensively locally and around the country.
Treating Sleep Disorders in Children and Adults
Dr. Ron Perkins is also a sleep apnea specialist. He has redesigned a very effective TAP® Appliance and reduced many side effects such as bite changes and unwanted teeth movement. Visit his web site, at www.sleepapneatexas.com, which is dedicated to helping visitors understand sleep apnea and its treatment.
Download Dr. Perkins’ latest article about treating sleep disorders in children and adults, including using oral appliances and many years past experience in recognizing and treating these problems in children. This article is easy to read and understand and will help anyone recognize sleep disorders with Dr. Perkins’ special diagnostic techniques for adults and children.
If you think you might have the problem, take the special Sleep Disorders Survey, submit it, and Dr. Perkins will call you about your symptoms, and explain options for treatment.
Watch Dr. Ron Perkins explain his own personal experience with sleep apnea and the dangers of sleep disordered breathing:
Sleep apnea is just one example of a range of sleeping airway problems called Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB). For example, even though snoring is one of the most important symptoms in both adults and children, some people with these sleeping problems do not snore.
Dr. Perkins is very experienced at recognizing this problem called Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS) often found in women. People who only have a slight airway obstruction can be just as tired as someone with sleep apnea, because their sleep is still interrupted not allowing that person to get enough deep, restful, and refreshing sleep.
Most everyone who has these problems thinks that this is normal for them, because they really do not realize how good they could feel with refreshing sleep. Therefore, if you wake up tired on a daily basis, you are tired during the day, you could possibly have SDB. If you snore at any age, you are most likely to not be getting adequate sleep. Even light snoring can disrupt your sleep cycle and prevent you from getting the deep, restful sleep you need. Any regular interruption in your sleep causes your body to be stressed which then leads to multiple other symptoms. High blood pressure, depression, indigestion, headaches, backaches, and night sweats are just a few of the side effects that result from SDB. All these side effects have always been associated with stress, so it follows that stress during the night plus stress during the day is double stress.
Recent studies have linked sleep disorders with several forms of cancer, especially breast cancer in women, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and of course heart disease, just to name a few.
Be sure to take the Sleep Disorders survey and Dr. Perkins will call you.