Snore Therapy
Snoring affects millions of people of all ages, both male & female, & can affect sleep, concentration, irritability & stress management.
Oral appliance therapy is the most common treatment for the most severe snoring problems.
Hooper Dentistry offers the SnoreGuard® appliance that helps open the airways during sleep.
What makes the sound 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.
- Smoking
- Alcohol
- Health Problems
- Obesity
- Obstructed Nasal Passages - Deviated Septum
- Poor Muscle Tone of the Tongue
- Daytime Fatigue
- Sleep Apnea
- Hypothyroidism
- Allergies
Common causes for snoring include:
Loud snorers may have a more serious case of blocked air passages, known as apnea. This has many serious side effects.
