Dental Cures For Sleep Apnea
Sleep ApneaAre There Dental Cures for Sleep Apnea?
There are cures for sleep apnea! Dentists are in a wonderful position to help their patients experience relief from the anxiety of sleep apnea concerns by designing a dental appliance to treat sleep apnea. Sleep apnea occurs when your airway is closing and you are not getting air and oxygen into your lungs. You become susceptible to stroke and heart disease as well as other life threatening conditions. You probably feel tired during the day and it is all because your airways are closing while you are sleeping.
A common unpopular apparatus that people use us a CPAP machine. With a CPAP machine, oxygen is very forcefully being pushed down your airways. Many patients do not like sleeping with all the hoses and masks. With a dental appliance. It is like wearing a little mouth guard. A dentist will position the jaw to stay forward. By keeping the jaw forward your airway does not close. If your airway does not close, oxygen is getting in.
With a dental appliance, you can roll over in bed. You can sleep on your back. Roll on your side. You cannot do that with a CPAP machine. Many patients with a CPAP machine complain, "I have to carry this big machine with me when I travel." However, with a dental appliance, you just snap in into your mouth. There are alternative ways to treat sleep apnea. There are different types of dental appliances out there. Go to a dentist. It is very easy to assess your needs and design a proper fitting appliance.
Your dentist will make an impression of your upper and lower jaw. Then he or she will make you an appliance. You put it in and you should not have anymore signs of sleep apnea.
Now, in order to get an appliance you have to be diagnosed with sleep apnea. How do you do that? You go to a sleep center. Your doctor can send you there. Your dentist can send you there. They monitor you when you are sleeping. They monitor how many times is your air way closing. If you have been diagnosed with sleep apnea, you can either wear a CPAP machine or a dental appliance. If you choose to wear a dental appliance, seek out a good dentist who knows how to do that and uses a good quality lab to make those. You can have a sleep apnea appliance made that has no hoses. Without any wires and you can toss and turn all night long.
At Dr. Anthony Grasso, DDS we specialize in creating custom solutions for your dental needs. We take every case individually, listening to you to understand your particular desires. Then, we discuss each option with you on how to best enhance your look. Dr. Anthony Grasso DDS is a member of the American Dental Association, New York State Dental Society and Onondaga County Dental Society. Dr. Grasso is past president of the Syracuse Dental Seminar. He is a lifelong resident of the Syracuse New York area, and received a Doctorate in Dental Surgery from the State University of New York at Buffalo.