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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: Oral appliance therapy was not associated with improvements in daytime sleepiness from baseline to 4-month follow-up when compared with the placebo device ; Epworth score > 10 : 53 % at baseline to 24 % at follow-up for the oral appliance group vs 54 % at baseline to 40 % at follow-up for the placebo device group, P =. 11 ; median (IQR) for Karolinska score 7/wk : 10 (8 to 14) at baseline to 7 (4 to 9) at follow-up for the oral appliance group vs 12 (6 to 15) at baseline to 8 (5 to 12) at follow-up for the placebo device group, P =. 11 ; mean between-group difference in OSLER test, -2. 4 min (95 % CI, -6. 3 to 1. 4).