If sleep apnea interferes with your ability to complete your rest cycles during the night, you can experience difficulties with your physical and emotional well-being. A lack of energy can leave you listless and unfocused during the day. You can have a harder time managing other health problems, including problems with your mental health. The interference in your breathing caused by sleep apnea can even lead to problems with high blood pressure! Our Livonia/Detroit, MI dentist’s office is prepared to help. By offering treatment for sleep apnea with a custom oral appliance, we can make treatment for this difficult issue easier to fit into your daily life.
Your Nightly Breathing Difficulties Can Affect Your Health
Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition that affects your nightly rest by interfering with your breathing. Your airways become blocked by soft tissues in the throat; partial blockages can lead to disruptive and embarrassing snoring, but prolonged interference can force you out of rest to clear your breathing passages. Because this break in rest stops your sleep cycle, you gain less from a night’s rest even if you do not remember waking up. What this means is your body is no longer going through the appropriate recovery, and you lose out on the benefits of sleep.
Recognizing Sleep Apnea Risk Factors And Symptoms
There are certain warning signs that can point to a higher risk for sleep apnea as well as its onset. People who are overweight, have a family history of this condition, snore, or have a deviated septum are more likely to suffer from sleep apnea. Those who snore, experience frequent daily fatigue, have high blood pressure, or often wake up with a headache and sore throat should worry that the condition is already a problem for them. The sooner you bring the matter up with your dentist, the sooner you can have it treated and put it to an end!
Starting Appliance Therapy
Rather than ask every patient to depend on a CPAP machine, which people can find uncomfortable, we do offer another form of care through oral appliance therapy. With your appliance, you can correct problems with poor nightly breathing by changing the position of your jaw to stop airway interference. Once you begin wearing your custom guard, you can have an easier time remaining at rest, which means you can be free of issues associated with poor nightly breathing and sleep deprivation.
Talk To Your Livonia/Detroit, MI Dentist About Treating Sleep Apnea
By beginning treatment for sleep apnea, you can stop further issues with your nightly rest that negatively impact your health and sense of well-being. For more information on how we can recommend appliance therapy to treat your difficulties, contact your Livonia, MI, dentist, Dr. Stewart, by calling (734) 425-4400.
