If you’ve decided to seek treatment for obstructive sleep apnea using an oral appliance, you may not know that there’s more than one type. While they are all designed to perform the same function, there’s really no one-size-fits-all option for sleep apnea appliances. Instead, you and your sleep dentist should review the many types of oral appliances, discuss the benefits of each, and find the option that meets your needs. In this post, we’ll review information about one of the many available oral appliances for sleep apnea treatment – the Narval appliance.
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For patients with sleep apnea, oral appliance therapy is a wonderful way to stop snoring, breathe easier, and get the rest we all need each night. There are a few options when it comes to
Sleep apnea is one of the most common sleep disorders. It occurs when people fail to breathe in and out during sleep. Cessations of breath lasting ten or more seconds are considered apnea events. Patients suffering from this disorder may have 100s or 1000s of apnea events each night. Traditionally, patients received treatment using continuous positive airway systems, but many people are unable to adjust to these sleep apnea therapies. If you’re struggling to adjust to your CPAP system, you may want to consider receiving an oral appliance from your dentist. There are many
As a parent, you’re always concerned with the well-being of your child. You wonder whether the necessary components are in place for him or her to be as well as can be? If not, what can be done to fix the problem? These are some of the questions that run through your mind, so it’s important that you know about a very subtle yet integral part of their health – the quality of
If you don’t feel well rested after a whole night of sleeping, you could be suffering from a sleeping disorder like sleep apnea. Many patients find it difficult to understand why they don’t feel great unless they have a partner to notice symptoms while they sleep. But in this week’s blog post, we’re going to explore sleep apnea and ways to treat it, like with CPAP alternatives in Lawton.