| Obstructive sleep apnea is an illness that should | | | | expand and contract. It is imperative that the soft |
| not be ignored. Usually it is the partner of the | | | | palate area of the mouth not collapse which |
| person with the disorder who makes the diagnosis | | | | closes the air passageway into the chest. When a |
| of the sleep apnea because they are unable to | | | | person suffers from these critical problems, they |
| sleep at night. A person with it not only tends to | | | | absolute must seek help to rectify their breathing |
| snore loudly at night, but they also flail their arms | | | | problems, and the bruising of their bed mate. A |
| and legs around a lot as well. This happens when | | | | sleep apnea dental appliance may be your answer. |
| their snoring causes their lungs to stop breathing. | | | | There are some exciting new advances being |
| After a minute or so of not breathing our bodies | | | | made in the field of obstructive sleep apnea. |
| have a natural instinct to try to wake ourselves | | | | There is now a dental appliance available. A patient |
| up so we will breathe again. Thus we flail our | | | | would need to find a dentist who specializes in this |
| arms and legs to wake up, and we hit our partner | | | | field. These dentists would be able to secure |
| in bed with us. Our partner probably was not | | | | previous medical records. Probably what would |
| sleeping because of the loud snoring anyway, but | | | | happen is that the dentist would make a cast of |
| a good punch in the nose is guaranteed to wake | | | | the patients teeth. The cast would be made "of a |
| anyone up. | | | | dental appliance that locks the jaw in place". This |
| Test after test has shown that sleep apnea can | | | | would prevent snoring. Patients who have used |
| cause death in a patient if that patient goes | | | | this device swear by it and would not go back to |
| undiagnosed or untreated. The stoppage of | | | | the CPAP type device. It is hoped that these |
| breathing can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and | | | | devices become more available across the |
| untold other medical problems. If a person is | | | | country for other people who suffer from sleep |
| overweight and has obstructive sleep apnea their | | | | apnea and would love to have such a dental |
| problem is multiplied because of the weight added | | | | appliance. |
| to the pressure placed on the lungs as the lungs | | | | |