Our Mission for Sleep Medicine Awareness

The NUS Edmund Tay Mai Hiong Endowed Fund was started to not only raise public and medical community awareness of dentistry's role in sleep and airway issues but to empower and recruit dentists as front line professionals in the early detection of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB).  We strongly believe that the informed dentist, working together with a team of dedicated sleep experts, has the potential to be a major factor in the co-management of many sleep-related disorders, not only Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA).

 
 

World Sleep 2025 is September 5 – 10, 2025 in Singapore. The World Sleep congress is the premier international meeting in sleep and circadian science and medicine with over 350 hours of presentations that cover all aspects of sleep and circadian science and medicine.

The World Dentofacial Sleep Society (WDSS) will also be holding their annual meeting on 6-7 September, 2025. https://dentofacialsleep.org/2025-meeting/

The purpose of the WDSS is:

  • to increase awareness among dentists, surgeons, and allied health professional of the global public health problem of sleep disorders;

  • promote education in the screening, diagnosis, and multidisciplinary treatment modalities;

  • advocate for public awareness concerning the consequences of sleep disorders and sleep deprivation;

  • and promote research between professional organizations and educational institutions to expand the field of sleep.

Please consider joining us @ www.dentofacialsleep.org

Save the date: September 5 – 10, 2025 Singapore

World Sleep 2025 will be the 18th World Sleep Congress. This congress will facilitate an international discussion forum and collaboration among sleep societies and sleep professionals. Sleep clinicians, technologists, trainees, educators, and scientists from around the world will meet to advance knowledge on sleep science, sleep in public health, sleep health and the sleep-wake disorders, their diagnosis and treatments.

World Sleep Society seeks to maximize learning both from formal presentations by the leading experts in their fields and from informal discussion groups emphasizing opportunities for networking and member participation.

The Singapore Sleep Bruxism Conversation and PSG Workshop

Saturday, 6 September (9am-5pm), Suntec City Convention Centre

This unique programme is organised by the World Dentofacial Sleep Society (WDSS) in conjunction with World Sleep 2025. The in-depth interactive workshop will be helmed by leading clinicians and researchers in the field of sleep bruxism and sleep medicine.  Please follow this link for the detailed programme schedule and faculty biographies. https://dentofacialsleep.org/2025-meeting/bruxism-workshop/

 Learning Objectives:

1. Definition of sleep bruxism and bruxism phenotypes.

2. Clinical and instrument assessments in the diagnosis of sleep bruxism (SB).

3. Scoring of Sleep Bruxism in PSG.

 Synopsis:

The definitions, diagnostic tools, and management options surrounding sleep bruxism often differ depending on whether you are a dentist, a sleep physician or a clinical researcher.

Is sleep bruxism (SB) an oral sleep-related motor behaviour, a sleep-related movement disorder, a parasomnia or a parafunction? The ongoing conversation on terminology illustrates that sleep bruxism is not a single entity. When should this relatively common masticatory muscle behaviour be considered for advanced testing: in presence of other sleep disorders? When should interprofessional therapeutic intervention become mandatory?

Dentists are often preoccupied with the destructive nature of bruxism whereas most sleep physicians regard SB a normal repetitive motor activity accompanying microarousals in sleep and/or its concomitance with sleep disordered breathing as inconsequential. Clinicians need to be aware when their patients present with ‘secondary’ SB and be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with their sleep physician and sleep psychologist colleagues especially when dealing with comorbidities such as insomnia, chronic headaches, sleep breathing disorders, REM sleep behaviour disorder and sleep epilepsy. Sleep disorders are risk factors for SB and need to be assessed.

In the research setting or with complex clinical cases, i.e., co-occurring sleep condition with health risk, the use of diagnostic instrumentation may be needed. The highest standard in sleep testing is the level 1 (laboratory, full montage), level 2 or 3 (home full or limited montage). Advanced polysomnographic methods are linked to intense sleep scoring task. Are today’s emerging diagnostic alternatives, level 4 (one channel or use of indirect assessment signals) and AI powered solutions ready for clinical use? The question remains open.

The programme is designed to be both practical and evidence-based to raise sleep medicine awareness in the local dentist community as well as to foster interdisciplinary medical-dental collaboration. It is suitable for dental and medical sleep practitioners of all levels of experience as well as sleep technologists. We encourage participants to come as a team.

You may choose to attend this full-day workshop as a stand-alone event at an early rate of USD $250 or on-site at USD $350 (inclusive of tea and lunch). You can register now at this link https://member.dentofacialsleep.org/event-6104073/Registration

 

Highlights of the ETMH Distinguished Speaker Program featuring Professor Peter Cistulli & Professor Gilles Lavigne

Professor Edmund Tay Mai Hiong

My father was a passionate man. He came from humble beginnings. Born to a planter in Sapong, a small town about 100 miles from Jesselton, British North Borneo (now Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, East Malaysia), he was sent to Singapore at the tender age of thirteen to continue his education in English... Read More