Deep, restful sleep helps your body renew, refresh, repair, and rejuvenate. It improves your health, mood, and brain performance. However, sleep disorders such as sleep apnea can leave you with poor quality sleep, impacting your health and quality of life. Main Street Dental Smiles is pleased to offer oral appliance therapy to get your sleep and health back on track. We invite you to schedule a consultation today!
What Is Sleep Apnea?
Do you snore loudly in your sleep? Do you wake up feeling drained? If so, you may have sleep apnea, a serious sleep disorder characterized by repeated pauses in breathing through the night. It usually occurs due to the muscles at the back of the throat relaxing and the soft tissues collapsing, which blocks the airway.
The brain senses the lack of oxygen, briefly waking up the patient to start breathing once again. Pauses in breathing can happen up to hundreds of times through the night. Repeated oxygen deprivation can lead to serious health concerns.
What Are Health Risks Associated with Sleep Apnea?
Sleep apnea has devastating effects on your mental, emotional, and physical wellness. It poses a safety threat, leaving you at a higher risk of driving and workplace accidents. Sleep and oxygen deprivation can also elevate the risk or severity of many health conditions like asthma, COPD, obesity, acid reflux, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and liver problems!
What Are the Warning Symptoms of Sleep Apnea?
Most people don’t realize they have sleep apnea unless they are alerted by a partner or family member. The most common symptoms are loud snoring and feeling tired and sleepy during the day. Patients often wake up choking, snorting, or gasping for breath. They may also experience morning headaches and feel tired and lethargic throughout the day.
Other symptoms include waking up with a sore throat or dry mouth, trouble concentrating, memory loss, anxiety, mood changes, and unexplained weight gain. Treating sleep apnea helps improve your health and quality of life.
How Is Sleep Apnea Treated?
Sleep doctors typically prescribe CPAP or continuous positive airway pressure devices that force oxygen into the nose through a mask to keep the airway open. However, many patients find CPAP machines noisy and cumbersome and sleep no better than they did before treatment.
Main Street Dental Smiles offers a more comfortable and effective sleep apnea solution through oral appliance therapy. Depending on your unique needs, we may recommend a mandibular advancement device or soft tissue repositioning oral appliance to keep your airway open and restore your restful, rejuvenating sleep.
Sleep Apnea Treatment in Whitesboro, TX
If you’d like to learn more about our comfortable and effective sleep apnea options, contact Main Street Dental Smiles today. Our experienced team will recommend the treatment best suited for your unique needs. We invite you to call us at 903-564-3451 and schedule your sleep apnea consultation today!
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