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Dentist's Concern: Snoring Patients

Discover why dentists should be concerned about patients who snore, the causes of snoring, and effective treatments. Learn from Dr. Henderson and Team 15 about the importance of addressing snoring for overall health.

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Dentist's Concern: Snoring Patients

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  1. Why should dentists be concerned about patients who report that they snore?Why do people snore and what can be done about it? Teacher : Dr. Henderson Team 15 103002068 蘇奕誠 103002073 王祥名 103002080 葉玟欣 103002086 蔣恩銘 103002091 周映瑜 103002100 洪崇文

  2. Why should dentists be concerned about patients who report that they snore?

  3. Grinding tooth

  4. OSA

  5. Why do people snore ?

  6. When you sleep, muscle tone throughout your body decreases, or becomes hypotonic. This relaxation of the upper airway muscles during sleep may decrease the size of the airway space and cause airflow limitation and turbulence. It is the combination of turbulent airflow through the hypotonic airway structures that results in the harsh vibratory noise known as snoring.

  7. Sleep apnea

  8. Sleep apnea is a potentially life-threatening sleep disorder characterized by repeated pauses in breathing during sleep. • Breathing pauses can last anywhere from several seconds to minutes, and happen as often as 30 times or more per hour. Sensing this imbalance, the brain sends a message to the body, telling it to wake up to restart the breathing process.

  9. People with sleep apnea will partially awake as they struggle to breathe, and this is often accompanied by loud snoring or choking sensations. • Because people with sleep apnea don’t always completely awake during the episodes, they are often unaware they have a sleeping disorder and it can remain undiagnosed.

  10. There are two main types of this disorder

  11. Central sleep apnea • Obstructive sleep apnea

  12. Reasons • Obesity • Weak muscle tension • Nasal congestion • Innate structural defects • Hereditary • Unhealthy habits

  13. Obesity • Up to 70 percent to 90 percent

  14. Cardiovascular Diseases • Weak heart function • Breath exchange

  15. Science experiments • Snoring can affect the heart and brain

  16. Age • The muscle tension around throat • Tongue is more likely to move backward

  17. Teenagers • Sleep deprivation

  18. Gender • Males and pregnant females

  19. Bad habits • Drinking and smoking • According to a Sweden study

  20. Hereditary • Family with snoring problems

  21. What can be done about people who snore?

  22. Lifestyle changes • Losing weight • Not drinking alcohol • Giving up smoking • Exercising regularly • Changing your sleeping posture

  23. Ear plugs

  24. Anti-snoring devices • Nasal devices • Oral devices • Mandibular advancement device(MAD)

  25. Nasal devices

  26. Nasal devices

  27. Oral devices

  28. Oral devices

  29. Mandibular advancement device(MAD)

  30. Mandibular advancement device(MAD)

  31. Surgery • there's evidence that snoring is having an adverse effect on your health or quality of life • you've tried all other recommended treatments without success

  32. Surgery

  33. Supplement

  34. Mispositioned jaw

  35. Mispositioned jaw

  36. Tongue dropping

  37. Tongue dropping

  38. A mandibular advancement splint (MAS) is a device worn in the mouth that is used to treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), snoring

  39. The splint treats snoring and sleep apnea by moving the lower jaw forward slightly, which tightens the soft tissue and muscles of the upper airway to prevent obstruction of the airway during sleep. The tightening created by the device also prevents the tissues of the upper airway from vibrating as air passes over them — the most common cause of loud snoring.

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