How does fitting Snore Guard in centric have any effect on snoring?
While you are upright, your airway passage is open. It is not until you recline that the lower jaw relaxes, allowing the muscles around the soft palate, uvula and tonsils to relax. The tongue falls back often obstructing the airway and these relaxed muscles vibrate due to the increased force of air now necessary to breathe to get through the obstructed airway. By keeping the jaw in the same position it is in during waking periods, you keep the airway open. Therefore, it is not necessary to protrude the mandible, except in rare cases when the patient’s lower teeth will not fit in the lower tray without hitting the hard plastic or with sleep apnea patients. Generally, in these incidences moving the mandible edge to edge is sufficient.
