At a time when the general public as well as health professionals are giving more and more importance to sleep, dental surgeons occupy a special place in helping to identify, but also to manage, several sleep disorders. particularly common.
By Irène Lacamp, published on November 13, 2024
More than half of French people attach more importance to their sleep than twenty years ago. This is what emerges from a survey carried out in 2020 by the National Institute of Sleep and Vigilance (INSV) and the MGEN. This is evidenced by the success of connected sleep tracking applications and devices, ASMR or guided relaxation videos, memory foam mattresses, pain-relieving pillows and weighted duvets. After all, “sleep, which occupies a third of life, constitutes an important existential dimension,” judges Professor Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi, psychiatrist and sleep doctor at Bordeaux University Hospital. However, the population’s sleep seems to be deteriorating. At least this is what emerges from various recent studies, such as the CoviPrev survey in 2022, according to which nearly 70% of French people declared experiencing “sleep problems”. The troubles…
