Patients indeed are often very surprised by how quickly they get used to wearing their oral mouth devices for snoring and apnea. Many of these patients had previous attempts in wearing night guards that help treat teeth grinding during sleep. Even if they were unsuccessful wearing those devices, many oral appliance patients get accustomed to oral appliances that treat apnea and snoring quite nicely.

Oral Mouth Devices – Oral Appliance Therapy

Side effects of discomfort and drooling usually are very short-lived and dissipate in the first few weeks. The far majority of our patients who have received an oral device at our practice are sleeping through the night within the first week of receiving their custom device.

Studies have shown that patients who have been prescribed an oral device for the treatment of apnea tend to keep wearing the device over the years to come, approximating to 80% long-term compliance. This compares to 40-60 % of CPAP usage studies. With our guidance and experience, we find that this number is even higher. Most of our patients continue to use their oral device once proven to be effective.

Dental Sleep and TMD Center of Illinois, a premiere snoring and apnea treatment center in Naperville has been providing the CPAP alternative treatment of oral appliance therapy for over 17 years successfully. We are extremely passionate in helping individuals that have been struggling with CPAP therapy in Naperville, Lisle, Aurora, Bolingbrook and surrounding Chicago suburbs. For more information on this physician-recommended treatment option visit www.TiredOfSnoring.com or call us at (630) 369-5508.

For years, we have seen how patients’ lack of sleep has attributed to weight gain. When recently speaking to a patient of ours, he mentioned that he lost several pounds after his apnea was treated without making any additional changes to his lifestyle.

Of course, changing lifestyles such as eating habits and activity levels helps contribute to overall health and weight loss, but sleep is often neglected as a very important piece of the weight loss puzzle.

If you are not getting enough sleep, or have untreated apnea or snoring, contact our office to discuss options available to add hours to your sleep, and potentially to help keep off extra pounds.

Here’s a recent article on how lack of sleep can affect your weight. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/how-sleep-loss-adds-to-weight-gain/?_r=0

Dental Sleep and TMD Center of Illinois, a premiere snoring and apnea treatment center in Naperville, has been providing the CPAP alternative treatment of oral appliance therapy for over 15 years successfully. We are extremely passionate in helping individuals that have been struggling with CPAP therapy in Naperville, Lisle, Aurora, Bolingbrook and surrounding Chicago suburbs. For more information on this physician recommended treatment option visit www.TiredOfSnoring.com or call us at (630)369-5508.

*photo credit to Evan Sung for The New York Times