ABOUT US
At Midwest Dental Sleep Medicine Institute, we are committed to caring for one patient at a time and which means we spend time talking with you, discussing your complete medical history and what is causing your sleep or TM joint problems and coming up with a correct diagnosis to treat these disorders. We want patients to understand their options for treating sleep apnea (OSA) and temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD). We treat patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) who are either CPAP intolerant or choose an oral device over using a CPAP to open their airway. To treat these disorders successfully you will want a doctor that is boarded in sleep medicine and who also has the knowledge and expertise to treat this potentially dangerous disorder which is characterized with periods of shallow breathing or pauses in breathing which causes the airway to collapse while sleeping.
When choosing a dentist to treat both sleep apnea (OSA) and temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD) it is important to choose a dentist who has had specialty training in sleep disordered breathing and cranial facial pain. Dr Gotsis is a Diplomate in the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and the American Sleep and Breathing Academy and has had extensive training in temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD) since 1995. His practice has been limited to Dental Sleep Medicine and temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD) since 2012.
MEET THE DOCTOR
Dr. Tom Gotsis grew up in Chicago and attended undergraduate school at SIU in Carbondale, IL. He graduated from Loyola School of Dentistry in Maywood, IL in 1987 and went into the U.S Army, where he completed a one-year residency program. He then spent three years in Germany. Upon completion of active duty at Ft. Still, OK, Dr. Gotsis came to St. Louis in 1992 and began his career in private practice. He retired from the Army Reserves as a Colonel in 2008, after being called to active duty three times from 2000 to 2005. He is on staff at DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, MO where his practice has been located since 2007.
He is a Boarded Diplomate in the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and the American Sleep and Breathing Academy. He is currently teaching a course on Dental Sleep Medicine at SIU dental school in Alton, Il. He is the past president of the Missouri Sleep Society and he has lectured extensively over the past ten years in the Midwest at various sleep conferences and the Missouri State Medical Association yearly conference. Dr Gotsis and his wife Laurie have been married for 37 years and have three grown children: Nicholas, Toree and Trace and two beautiful grandchildren.
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