Snoring Remedies: Silence in the Bedroom At Last

Dr. David W. Sparks Snoring remedies can be as simple as a mouthpiece which provides a non-surgical way to alleviate snoring. By adjusting the jaw to come forward a few millimeters with a appliance that fits over the teeth, the airway is opened up and snoring remedies have been created. Sponsored by Snorban, a stop snoring solutions provider. Topics covered:

• How do oral appliances work as snoring remedy?
• The Mechanical Action of a Mandibular Advancement Device (MAD).

Snoring is the bane of so many relationships because it ruins or prevents quality sleep for bedmates. It also seriously impairs the quality of the sleep of the snorer. Snoring solutions have been sought for decades, if not centuries and an oral appliance that adjusts the way the lower jaw sits at rest may provide a simple, inexpensive and very effective means of overcoming this problem.

How do oral appliances work as snoring remedy?

Prior to explaining how or why a snoring mouthpiece works to eliminate snoring, let us describe the underpinnings of snoring. Snoring is nothing more than a vibration of the soft tissues that make up the upper, rear one-third of the roof of the mouth. These soft tissues are the soft palate and uvula. When we fall asleep at night, the soft palate and uvula relax and drop down into the airway (path between the air we breathe and the lungs, passing through either the nose or mouth). Think of a nozzle on a water hose. When the nozzle is configured in such a way that the opening is narrowed, water comes out under significantly greater pressure than when the nozzle’s aperture is opened all the way. In like fashion, if the size of our airway is reduced by having tissues collapse into the airway while we sleep, then the air we breathe is under significant pressure. When air is under pressure it can set objects into motion. Think of a flag in a brisk wind. When we fall asleep, when the soft tissues drop into the airway, these tissues are set into motion or vibration. Snoring solution? Open up the airway and decrease the air pressure..

The Mechanical Action of a Mandibular Advancement Device (MAD).

A mouthpiece that acts as a snoring remedy is custom fit over the upper and lower teeth in such a way that this oral appliance or MAD re-seats the lower jaw, called the mandible, causing it to move forward. The net effect is to open up the cross-sectional area of the airway. In so doing it reduces the air pressure in the breath stream thus the energy to set the soft tissues of the throat into vibration is dramatically reduced. Stated simply, placing a fitted oral appliance into the mouth during sleep can be a very effective snoring solution and can bring good quality sleep back into the bedroom. The oral appliance or mandibular advancement device is something I recommend for the patient whose sleep is disturbed by the noise accompanying snoring.

About Dr. David Sparks

Dr. David Sparks is a former university research professor and expert on sleep disorders including sleep apnea. Over the last 20 years he has lectured on snoring causes and cures, and worked with patients, physicians and hospital groups all over the country on the effects of poor sleep with accompanying sleep deprivation. Dr. Sparks' motivational seminars have provided thousands of grateful patients the help necessary to dramatically improve the quality of their lives thought snoring remedies.