When people think of snoring, they often think of bothersome and loud breathing that wakes or keeps you up at night. What many people don’t know, however, is that chronic snoring can greatly influence your productivity and may increase your health risks later on in life.
Dr. Alexander and his team are dedicated to enhancing your overall well-being through personalized dental care—including helping you sleep better with custom dental appliances to help you breathe easy all night long.
The Health Effects of Snoring
ALEXANDER DENTISTRY is happy to offer custom devices to help pati ents reduce and even eliminate snoring. Read below to see how snoring appliances can improve an essential part of your life.
If snoring is keeping you or your loved ones up at night, set up an appointment with Dr. Alexander. We can help to diagnose and combat symptoms of snoring to help you sleep and live better. Our dental appliances are easy to use and can be adjusted to fit personal situations.
Makes Your Days Harder
Consistent snoring can negatively affect your sleep and the sleep of your loved ones. When you miss out on sleep, you will find it more difficult to focus during the day and accomplish the day’s work. This can greatly deteriorate one’s social, emotional, and physical state.
Sleep is an essential element in improving your immune system’s general well-being. Though snoring is harmless at first, it can easily affect your mood and daily life in the future. Take care of your physical and mental health with the help of snoring appliances.
Sparks Bruxism
Your teeth take the brunt of aggressive snoring on your body. Snoring can lead to teeth clenching and grinding, which can be continued well after snoring symptoms have subsided.
Habitual teeth grinding and clenching is known as bruxism. Bruxism can cause significant damage to your teeth by constantly rubbing away your teeth’s enamel, the outer protective layer of your teeth. This can lead to chipped, crooked, and cracked teeth.
Increases Health Risks
If you are missing sleep regularly, this can result in far more serious problems than distraction and daytime exhaustion. It can negatively affect your heart, your psychological state, and your weight. Getting a good night’s sleep is important to staying healthy for a lifetime and avoiding serious health issues in the future.
Do you find it hard to get up in the morning after unrestful sleep, reporting symptoms of feeling ill? Unaddressed snoring can block your airways and eventually evolve into sleep apnea, which requires more persistent and lengthy treatment.
Snoring Appliance Therapy
Our job with snoring appliances is to troubleshoot what is causing your snoring issues.
After a consultation and examination, Dr. Alexander can prescribe a snoring appliance, so that you—and those around you—can begin to sleep better. A snoring appliance looks and works much like a sports mouth guard or a retainer.
The snoring appliance will keep your jaw in a forward position, which keeps your airway open. When your airway remains open, you can breathe easily and your snoring can decrease dramatically or even disappear. The snoring appliance is only worn while you sleep to minimize the symptoms of snoring.
Snoring appliances come with several advantages. These appliances are:
- Easy to use: All you need to do is use a mouthguard and prop your head up while you sleep. There’s no need to add more steps to your nighttime routine.
- Easy to handle: There’s no need to wear large or bulky equipment while you sleep. Snoring appliances can be tailored to your needs.
- Sleep-friendly: Dr. Alexander can help you adjust the tool to help you sleep more soundly.
- Portable: Snoring appliances can be taken wherever you go, creating a straightforward and efficient treatment process.
Sleeping with these appliances can allow you and your loved ones to sleep more soundly throughout the night.
Personalized Just For You
Dr. Alexander will take impressions of your teeth and send them to a dental lab for the creation of an oral device that is precisely for you. The result is a snoring appliance designed to fit comfortably and feel unobtrusive.
You will be scheduled for follow-up visits, so Dr. Alexander can make sure that your appliance is improving your life the way it should. At these visits, we will talk with you about whether or not your symptoms are diminishing and how your appliance feels when you sleep.
You can rest confidently knowing that each treatment is shaped to pinpoint our clients’ specific concerns.
Give Yourself a Good Night’s Sleep
Every day is brighter and easier when you get a good night’s sleep! Frequent snoring is a common problem that can be easily remedied when you turn to Dr. Kevin Alexander. Contact ALEXANDER DENTISTRY based in Mountain Brook, AL, to set up your appointment today!