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Start Sleeping Through the Night
If you are kept up all night with problems snoring, you could be seriously endangering your health. This may come as a surprise to you, but snoring is an indication that you might be suffering from more serious health issues.
Snoring occurs when your air path gets blocked, making it hard for you to breathe. When you’re sleeping, the muscles in your throat relax a little, causing your airway to shrink. If it shrinks too much, you might not be getting enough air into your body. When this happens, you create a vibrating sound when breathing. This vibration is essentially what we call snoring.
Snoring is actually a serious problem. Most of the time, people who snore regularly also suffer from sleep apnea. This is a disorder that can have dire health implications if it is not treated.
Sleep apnea obstructs your sleep cycles by interrupting your breathing. When this occurs, your body’s sleep cycles get disrupted. In order to breathe, your body must come out of a deeper sleep cycle and into a more shallow sleep cycle. As a result, you will suffer from sleep deprivation and have a tendency to feel fatigue throughout the day.
Sleep apnea has some serious consequences for you. If not treated, it can lead to an increased risk for heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, obesity, and a multitude of other disorders.
Fortunately, this problem can easily be treated. And believe it or not, the place to go for this treatment is the office of Dr. Haddad and Dr. Doolin. At Rochester Advanced Dentistry, we are always looking for better ways to help serve our clients. Recently, we have started treating our clients for sleep apnea. There are many mechanical devices that you can wear while sleeping which will help you sleep through the night. If you are suffering from sleep apnea, please contact us to set up an appointment.
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