Dr. Deepa Jayashankar Podcast

Whenever there is a  patient  with  snoring  most of the time the quality of  life is diminished because  it is quite a  situation  for the partner when the patient is snoring while  sleeping, so as per  the American  Association of  Sleep Medicine,  they say stop  snoring and save  your romance.  So we  always  tell all our patients  who are  embarrassed  with this  situation  to come out in the open and  speak  about it  because  snoring is   very dangerous  sign for patients because  they  will be suffering  from something called as  sleep apnea.    When we say apnea, it means while  the patient is  sleeping, there is  some amount of  time  when the patient is not   breathing because  the airways  is obstructed. So this is  what we   mean  by saying obstructive sleep  apnea  because  the airway of the patient is  obstructed and the  studies reveal that  because of this obstruction, there is  decreased oxygen  supply  to the brain, because of  which  can have any kind of   effects on the systemic  conditions like the heart or they can also have  a stroke or associated  situations. So snoring is a very alarming  sign, I  would say for  patients  who have Obstructive Sleep Apnea .  In Tooth Firm, we give an Anti Snoring appliance which is also called as a silencer. Essentially what it does is  when the patients  snores, the airways is obstructed. So when we give this appliance, it  pulls the lower  jaw  forwards,  along  with the  tongue and prevents the  tongue from falling back and closing the  airway, thereby  w e are  going to   make  the patency of airway  together  with the flow of air  in the night so that  the patient  doesn’t  snore  and  so that all the other  factors  of Obstructive Sleep Apnea  is  diminished.