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Obstructive sleep apnea is an under recognized and under diagnosed medical condition, with a myriad of negative consequences on patients' health and society as a whole. The most acting reason behind Obstructive sleep apnea given as in literature is due to recurrent episodes of upper airway (UA) collapse during sleep. From the mid-1990s to the present, we have seen an explosion of basic, clinical, and population research directed toward the prevalence, causes, consequences, and treatment of this long-standing, although only recently appreciated, problem. Sleep apnea has attracted a myriad of researchers from diverse disciplines and clinical subspecialties.Finally, given the relatively high prevalence of this sleep-specific problem with potential carryover to daytime pathology, sleep apnea has provided great impetus to the growth of sleep medicine as a clinical and research specialty.

Dr Hridya VG is a postgraduate(MDS) in Dept of Pediatric and preventive Dentistry, Divya Jyoti college of dental science and Reseach,Ghaziabad. She has completed her graduation from Asan Memorial Dental College And Hospital,Chennai in 2016. She has secured best paper and poster awards in various national and state conferences.