Sleep Snore Dentistry

Snoring is a common disorder that affects around 60% men and 40% women over 30 years of age. Snoring is the sound made while breathing through mouth and nose during sleep. Sleep snoring occurs when air does not move smoothly through air passages, making tissue in mouth, nose and throat vibrate as air passes through. To prevent snoring, sleep snore dentistry provides oral appliances that are used while sleeping. Snoring sometimes causes sleep apnea. This occurs when blockage in air ways causes you to stop breathing for few seconds, so you wake up many times in night. You may not even realize, but it causes tiredness and affects day to day life.

Sleep Snore Dentistry A dentist provides oral appliances or other therapy for sleep snore or sleep apnea.

• Oral appliances (OA's) are for patients with mild to moderate OSA (obstructive sleep apnea), who prefer them to Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) therapy.
• Oral appliance are placed in mouth and worn like an orthodontic appliance or sport mouths protector. Oral appliances or mouth guards are worn during sleep to prevent the collapse of tongue and soft tissue in the back of the throat so that air ways remain open during sleep. Mouth guards are comfortable to wear. Oral appliance for snoring can be used alone or with other means of therapy such as CPAP.

Types of Sleep Snore Dental Appliances For heavy snores dentists suggest dental mouth pieces that are known as mouth guards. Around 80 different types of dental devices for snoring and sleep apnea are available with specially trained dentists to treat snoring. Mouth guards have 3 basic designs-

• Tongue retaining appliances.
• Mandibular Repositioning Dental Appliance(Mandibular advancement appliance)-It holds the lower jaw forward during sleep.
• One that lifts the soft palate up, but some find this makes them gag.

Causes of sleep snoring

• Overweight- If a person is overweight; he is more likely to snore.
• Age -With age throat muscles become weak, making them vibrate more during sleep.
• Alcohol and medicine.
• Sleeping on back
• Cold, allergies and smoking.
• Other physical factors that cause the blockage in mouth and nose, and narrow the air ways are-
• Enlarged tonsils.
• A damaged nose which limits air flow.
• A low set or thick soft palate.

Sleep Snore Dentistry in India Dentists in India are trained to fix mouth guards, which can eliminate or reduce snore noises up to 80%. The cost of mouth guards and dental consultation, as compared to US and UK is very less in India. That is why thousands of people fly every year from US to India for dental treatments. The cost of mouth guard is $60 to $70 in US where as it is just half in India along with dental consultation from the experts. Dental clinics providing sleep snore therapy in India includes

Dr Bela Jain's Clinic, Mumbai
Smile and shine dental clinic, Delhi
Allign Orthodontics, Gurgaon

Habitual snorers can be at risk for serious health problems. If you want to stop snoring, it is important to consider the cause and severity of snoring. Identifying the cause can only help to choose the right cure.