Dental appliance for sleep apnea
Is poor sleep holding you back? Our doctor screens for common sleep disorders like Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS), and disturbed sleep.
- Is poor sleep holding you back?
- Do you want to wake up refreshed and recharged?
- Are you having trouble with brain fog or headaches when you first wake in the morning?
- Could you use more energy from a restful sleep?
- Are you having trouble with brain fog or headaches when you first wake in the morning?
- Could you use more energy from a restful sleep?
If you answered yes to the above questions, you might be a candidate for sleep dentistry and oral appliance for sleep apnea. These warning signs could be more serious indicators that stem from a lack of healthy sleep.
OSA can cause unwanted health complications such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and can even shorten your life span.
More people have trouble sleeping than you might think. Sleep disorders and obstructive sleep apnea affect millions of Americans.
11 Myths and Facts About Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- 25 million U.S. adults have obstructive sleep apnea
- 9-21% of women have obstructive sleep apnea
- 24-31% of men have obstructive sleep apnea
- 50-70 million US adults have a sleep disorder
- 48.0% report snoring
- 37.9% reported unintentionally falling asleep during the day at least once in the preceding month
Symptoms of sleep apnea in adults can range from mild to severe.
Your brain begins to die after six minutes without oxygen. Irreversible brain damage or death follows.
What Oral Appliance Does Dr. Green Use for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients?
Dr. Randi Green screens for obstructive sleep apnea and upper airway resistance syndrome. She helps her patients understand all sleep apnea treatment options and dental appliances for sleep apnea near you.
Other sleep apnea symptoms to screen include interrupted breathing during sleep, falling asleep during the workday, irritability, forgetfulness, anxiety, depression, morning headaches, and mood or behavioral changes.
Oral appliance treatment (OAT) can be successful for those seeking to avoid CPAP with a dental sleep appliance to treat obstructive sleep apnea.
Screen for Sleep Apnea in the Comfort of Your Own Bed
Take-Home Sleep Test Screens for Sleep Disordered Breathing
Get answers with a sleep test in a few days, not months. Dr. Green can help you determine if you’re a candidate for an oral night appliance with a simple one-night, take-home sleep screening.
*Sleep screening results are verified and scored by board-certified sleep physicians and reports will look similar to images below.
Cured snoring and sleep apnea with a mouth piece when the primary care physician wanted to put me on a CPAP. I highly recommend Dr. Green.
—Rob Y. via Google ★★★★★
What is Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
Why do I snore at night and how do I stop snoring?
During sleep, your tongue and throat tissue may relax enough to narrow your airway. Snoring is the sound that is produced when air passes through this partially blocked area causing tissues to vibrate.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea syndrome or OSA is a medical condition where your tongue and soft tissues close off your airway and stop air from entering your lungs. When this occurs during sleep, the oxygen in your blood decreases, your heart races, and your brain panics causing you to startle awake.
Getting the right amount of sleep is vital to your health. Unfortunately, nearly 40 percent of American adults are getting less than seven hours of sleep a night.
Sleep Apnea Treatment Options
Custom-fitted sleep apnea devices can successfully treat obstructive sleep apnea and chronic snoring.
A customized dental appliance for sleep apnea can help to keep your airway open without obstruction from tubing, loud sleep machinery, or forced air through a CPAP.
Many cases of sleep apnea benefit from using a CPAP. This device forces air in through the nose or mouth through tubes or a face mask. Many people struggling with OSA find that the CPAP interferes with sleep even more than the condition alone.
In severe cases, a combination of the oral appliance with a CPAP may prove to be the most effective solution.
Dr. Green can address these concerns and talk about lifestyle changes in addition to other sleep treatments and therapies to help you understand what may be required to restore restful and complete sleep.
How Does a Sleep Appliance Work?
Physiologic oral sleep appliances hold your lower jaw in a slightly forward position during sleep. Throat tissues are moved away from the back of the throat providing are larger opening for airflow that helps reduce or eliminate snoring and can lower the occurrence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
Can a Dental Sleep Apnea appliance help sleep disordered breathing?
Only a dentist with advanced training, like LVI fellow Dr. Randi Green can provide you with a custom-fitted sleep appliance. Dentists near you, like Dr. Green, have special training that can help play a key role in screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea with 3D X-Ray imagery among other screenings.
Dr. Green partners with local Springfield medical doctors and sleep physicians to properly diagnose any sleep disorders.
Once the diagnosis is verified by a sleep physician, Dr. Green can custom-fit a sleep appliance to help treat patients suffering from Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
An oral sleeping device could be an alternative treatment for existing CPAP users or those who are non-compliant or have problems with regular usage of a CPAP.
Patients that have tried and failed with other oral sleep mouthpieces but found them too difficult also could be prime candidates to treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) with custom-measured dental devices for sleep apnea.
- FDA-cleared for the treatment of sleep apnea
- Only worn while you sleep
- Small and easy to transport
- Discreet and noise-free
- Easy to maintain and clean
- Comfortable and custom-fit
Finally, a lifestyle-friendly snoring and sleep apnea treatment
Our oral appliance therapy, a proven effective treatment for mild, moderate, or severe sleep apnea and snoring, offers hope for better sleep. Dr. Randi Green in Springfield utilizes this small, easy-to-use oral sleep appliance that is custom-fit for each patient, ensuring maximum effectiveness.
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