Snoring affects millions of people of all ages, both male and female. Oral appliance therapy is the most common treatment for the most severe snoring problems. Treatment procedures range from changing your sleep patterns to utilizing orthodontic-related appliances that help open the airways during sleep.
Common Causes of Snoring
Snoring is caused by the vibrations of your soft and/or hard tissue palates; these vibrations occur because of increasingly narrow air passages. When air passes through these passages, a “flapping” sound occurs because the tissue is soft in nature. Surgery (to alleviate the snoring) is not always successful, however, because the sound may not originate from the soft palate; the snoring sometimes originates from tissues in the upper airway.
Common causes:
- Obesity
- Smoking
- Health problems
- Alcohol
- Obstructed nasal passages – deviated septum
- Poor muscle tone of the tongue
- Daytime fatigue
- Sleep apnea
- Hypothyroidism
- Allergies
Bite Splints/Mouth Guards
We are pleased to offer our patients custom-fabricated bite splints, also called mouth guards, to aid with snoring. Our mouth guards are tailored to fit your exact dental profile, providing the highest attainable level of comfort.
The first step in fabricating these mouth guards is to take an impression of your teeth. We then use that impression and fabricate the mouth guard using special professional-grade materials. The perfect fit of these custom-fabricated mouth guards ensures that not only will your mouth guards fit comfortably, they will also offer the most relief from snoring and interfere the least with your breathing.