SLEEP APNEA
At Butler Smiles Dental Care, Dr. Todd and our caring staff are passionate about improving your life and protecting your health. This includes boosting your oral health along with overall wellness. One thing that can decrease your quality of life is constant snoring or poor sleep. But thankfully, we provide solutions for sleep apnea and snoring.
Many of the people we see at our office are troubled by chronic snoring. If you snore, you already know that both your sleep and the sleep of your partner are affected. Snoring is especially concerning when it happens because of sleep apnea. If sleep apnea is left untreated, you could end up with low sleep quality that impacts your waking hours.
Discover. more about sleep apnea and treatment options by calling Butler Smiles Dental Care Today.
What Is Sleep Apnea?
In some cases, snoring is a warning sign of a greater problem. Sleep apnea is a relatively common sleeping disorder caused by a narrow or closed airway.
When you are struggling with sleep apnea, your body will wake you up anywhere between tens and hundreds of times throughout the night. This is because when the airway closes during sleep, the body will wake itself to reopen the airway.
Sleep apnea affects both the patient’s sleep quality and oxygen levels.
Common symptoms of sleep apnea include:
If you have some of these symptoms, you may be struggling with sleep apnea. It’s important to seek help. While sleep apnea usually isn’t life-threatening, it does impact your health and wellness, leading to fatigue and an increased risk of high blood pressure.
If you are having trouble sleeping, or you wake up feeling tired, there is easy treatment available at Butler Smiles Dental Care. Treatment for sleep apnea doesn’t have to involve surgery or medication. Our patients deserve a noninvasive and safe way to overcome sleep apnea.
What Are the Risk Factors of Sleep Apnea?
Sleep apnea can affect people of all ages, even kids. However, some risk factors increase your chances of developing obstructive sleep apnea. It’s important to keep these in mind, especially if you’ve noticed increased snoring or other symptoms.
Most often, the pre-existing medical conditions include type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.
If you do have these risk factors, it’s especially important to make an appointment if you have snoring problems.
Oral Appliances For Sleep Apnea
To relieve sleep apnea symptoms and restore healthy sleep, we may recommend positional therapy, an oral appliance, surgery, or a combination of treatments. As often as possible, we provide treatments that are convenient and painless to the patient.
Dr. Todd will learn more about your unique sleep apnea case and symptoms. If you are diagnosed with sleep apnea, he will discuss treatment possibilities with you and help you decide which path you prefer.
You may have heard of CPAP machines as the only option to treat sleep apnea, but this isn’t the case. The CPAP machine is effective but is also bulky, costly, and uncomfortable. Some patients claim they sleep less while wearing the device than they did before they had it.
We offer first-class solutions for sleep apnea that don’t disrupt your sleep or cause discomfort.
Oral appliance therapy is one of our most popular solutions to sleep apnea. Oral appliances are often similar to mouthguards, so they aren’t as large as a CPAP machine. They are also quiet and small, so you can take them with you without trouble.
Schedule A Consultation Today
If you have noticed the signs of sleep apnea, come see us for a consultation. Dr. Todd is committed to improving your life while safeguarding you from the threats of sleep apnea. The disease is linked to weight gain, heart disease, and diabetes, but we can work together to reverse the problem before any other symptoms arise.
Dr. Todd is here to find a treatment that is minimally invasive and comfortable, all while working to improve your life.
To schedule your visit, please contact us at Butler Smiles Dental Care today.
