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.