The South Texas Oral Health Network Study of Practitioners’ Approaches to Oral Appliance Therapy Titration for Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Their Impact on Patient Outcomes (PAOSA): Protocol for a Prospective Observational Study

Rahma Mungia   ¹ , BDS, MSc ;   Ellen Funkhouser   ² , DrPH ;   Caitlin Sangdahl   ³ , BS ;   Manju Bikkanuri   ⁴ , MBBS ;   Veerasathpurush Allareddy   ⁵ , BDS, MBA, MHA, MMSc, PhD ;   Frank Lobbezoo   ^{6, 7} , DDS, PhD ;   Merel Charlotte Verhoeff   ⁶ , DDS, PhD ;   Jari Ahlberg   ⁸ , DDS, PHD ;   Gregg H Gilbert   ⁹ , DDS, MBA ;   Maria Therese Galang-Boquiren   ⁵ , DMD, MS, MBA

¹ Department of Periodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States

² Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

³ Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science (IIMS), The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, United States

⁴ Department of Population Health Sciences, Long School of Medicine, The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, United States

⁵ Department of Orthodontics, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

⁶ Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

⁷ Department of Orofacial Pain and Jaw Function, Faculty of Odontolog, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

⁸ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

⁹ Department of Clinical and Community Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States