PURPOSE To evaluate quality and readability of online information on dental treatment for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. METHODS An Internet search was done using three engines (Bing, Google, and Yahoo) with the combination of terms, "snoring sleep apnea dental treatment". The first 100 sites from the search of each engine were screened. Subject sites were evaluated with Health on the Net(HON) criteria, Journal of American Medical Association(JAMA) benchmarks, DISCERN, Ensuring Quality Information for Patients(EQIP), Flesch-Kincaid Grade level and Flesch Reading Ease(FRE) score. RESULTS One hundred and thirty websites were evaluated. The HON, DISCERN, EQIP, and FRE score were each 39.4%, 47.3%, 49.7%, and 51.6% of the maximum possible score, respectively. According to JAMA benchmarks fewer than 50% of the sites displayed attribution and currency. There was only one site displaying the HON seal. HON score, DISCERN score and EQIP score showed significant inter-correlation. CONCLUSION Based on this study, the current quality and readability of searchable websites on dental treatment for snoring and sleep apnea are low and poorly maintained on average. Clinicians should be able to evaluate and give accurate online information on this issue to patients.

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打dental和阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的牙科治疗在线信息的质量和可读性。

目的评估打treatment和阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的牙科治疗在线信息的质量和可读性。方法使用三个引擎（Bing，Google和Yahoo）结合术语“打sleep睡眠呼吸暂停牙科治疗”进行Internet搜索。筛选了每个引擎搜索的前100个站点。对受试者的现场进行了健康评估，评估标准为Net（HON），美国医学协会（JAMA）基准，DISCERN，确保患者的质量信息（EQIP），Flesch-Kincaid等级水平和Flesch Reading Ease（FRE）得分。结果对130个网站进行了评估。HON，DISCERN，EQIP和FRE分数分别为最大可能分数的39.4％，47.3％，49.7％和51.6％。根据JAMA基准，只有不到50％的网站显示了归因和币种。只有一个站点显示HON标记。HON评分，DISCERN评分和EQIP评分显示出显着的相互关系。结论基于这项研究，目前用于打和睡眠呼吸暂停的牙科治疗网站的质量和可读性较低，并且平均维护水平较低。临床医生应该能够评估并就此问题向患者提供准确的在线信息。