What are the advantages of using an oral appliance?
There are many different options for sleep apnea treatment, but for many patients, oral appliances offer the ideal solution. Depending on the morphology of your jaw, throat, and nasal passages, as well as the particular symptoms of your sleep apnea, an oral appliance may target the snoring, the interrupted breathing, or both. An effective oral appliance will lead to an improvement in the quality and duration of sleep, a reduction in the volume and persistence of snoring, and possibly eliminate apneic events. Oral appliances are more portable, smaller, and easier to use than CPAP treatment. Because of this, they often prove more effective, since a significant number of CPAP users do not get full relief because of the difficulty in using the CPAP device.
