Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading List: Sleep, Breathing, & TMD

Sleep-Disordered Breathing & Sleep Health

• Sleep Interrupted: A Physician Reveals the #1 Reason Why So Many of Us Are Sick and Tired by Steven Y. Park, MD

• The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night’s Sleep by William C. Dement, MD, PhD

• Sleep Apnea: The Phantom of the Night by Samuel A. Krachman, DDS

Breathing & Respiratory Health

• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

• The Oxygen Advantage: Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You by Patrick McKeown

• Breatheology: The Art of Conscious Breathing by Stig Åvall Severinsen

Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) & Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy

• The TMJ Healing Plan: Ten Steps to Relieve Pain and Restore Function by Susan J. Danielson, DDS

• Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy: Clinical Case Studies by Raphael C. dos Santos and M. Eugenia C. Weckwerth

• Temporomandibular Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment by Jeffrey P. Okeson, DDS

Mind-Body Connection, Trauma & Nervous System

• The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation by Stephen W. Porges

• Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, MD — a groundbreaking book on how trauma is stored in the body and pathways to healing.