Sleep Apnea

If you have a lot of people, they'll come in with tooth wear, they'll come in with acid reflux, and they'll come in tired. You can kind of tell if they just look tired or they'd say they're tired or they say I didn't get much sleep or they'll say I snore or somebody else says I snore. And so when you start putting that all together, we actually screen for that.

And so what does sleep therapy look like in our office? We have several different options. One could be myofunctional therapy. Like I said to start strengthening the tongue.

It's a muscle. Strengthening the roof of the mouth. That's the palate and that's there's muscles there, too.

And then we can start talking about tongue tie therapies that that we can do to release the tongue so it's not tied down and back. We can talk about oral appliances that draw the jaw forward. That actually is doing the same thing that a tongue tie therapy could do.

Drawing the tongue and jaw forward so it's out of your airway. We have a Solea Sleep. That's something that it's a laser that we can kind of bathe the soft palate.

It'll just feel like you just had some hot tea. A lot of people think, oh, you're gonna laser my, yeah, we're gonna use it. It'll just feel like you just had too hot of tea for a day or two.

I've had it done. My wife says it works, but but yeah, we use that and that tightens up the tissue and it shrinks the tissue. And so now air will compress better through that area.

It's something that we've got a few solutions and we might even employ more than one solution. But our goal is not to have you wearing a CPAP. A CPAP is something that people just generally don't like.

But I will tell people every time they come here a CPAP is the gold standard. So if you don't want to do that, we have other options and we really love to love that. I've brought one guy in and just doing one modes of therapy, one of those modes of therapy.

He was waking up six times a night and we got him down to waking up just one time a night. I said, well, are you happy with that? He says, I'm thrilled. He said, I sleep a ton and I sleep so much better and I wake up so much better.

So yeah, it's really fun.