Sleep Apnea & Oral Appliance Therapy
For patients with snoring or mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea, custom oral appliances may provide a comfortable alternative or complement to traditional treatment options, designed to help maintain an open airway during sleep, improving breathing and sleep quality.
What this treatment actually involves.
For patients with snoring or mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea, custom oral appliances may provide a comfortable alternative or complement to traditional treatment options.
These appliances are designed to help maintain an open airway during sleep, improving breathing and sleep quality.
A custom appliance, worn only at night.
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Keeps the airway open
These appliances are designed to help maintain an open airway during sleep, which is what reduces the collapse behind snoring and obstructive events.
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Improves breathing and sleep quality
Better sleep is the actual goal. The appliance is the means, and it is judged on whether you and the people around you notice a difference.
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An alternative, or a complement
For mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea it may be a comfortable alternative to traditional treatment options, or something used alongside them.
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Made to fit you
It is custom-made from impressions or a scan of your own teeth, because an appliance that is not comfortable is an appliance that does not get worn.
Adults who snore, wake unrefreshed, or have been diagnosed with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea and cannot tolerate CPAP.
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About oral appliance therapy.
It is worn at night and holds the lower jaw and tongue in a position that keeps the airway open, which reduces the collapse that causes snoring and obstructive events.
For mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea it may be an alternative, and for some patients it works alongside existing treatment. Which applies depends on your diagnosis, so it is a conversation to have together with the physician managing it.
Obstructive sleep apnea is a medical diagnosis, so treatment follows from one. If you snore and have never been assessed, that is the place to start, and we can talk about the appliance alongside it.
Other treatments you might need.
Ask about oral appliance therapy
Snoring, or already diagnosed? Ask us whether an oral appliance is a sensible option for you.