Snoring

The causes...
During sleep, your tongue and the muscles and tissues surrounding your airway relax with the rest of your body, reducing the size of your airway.  As you breathe, these relaxed tissues vibrate, causing the sound that we know as snoring!

The solutions...
Excess weight, alcohol consumption, and sedatives can all contribute to snoring.  Although this can be treated medically with an air pressure machine or the surgical removal of excess tissue, the success rate for these methods, intrusive as they are, is less than 50%.  Fortunately, the use of a snoring appliances is a less intrusive, more successful option.

Snoring Appliances:
Snoring appliances are worn in the mouth while you sleep, much like traditional orthodontic retainers.  They gently reposition your jaw to increase the size of your airways during sleep.  With proper case evaluation, these appliances have a 90% success rate.