What Are the Different Types of Snoring? Is Your Tongue Making You Snore?

Have you heard your bed partner or a family member snoring at night and wondered why the noises sound different with every person? The reason for the difference is the different versions of snoring that occur.

While all snoring indicates your body confronts challenges when breathing, the different versions indicate the root cause of the problem. The dentist in Boca Raton is willing to help you determine the underlying causes of snoring and provide effective treatment for the situation in the region.

Types Of Snoring

• Snoring Through the Nose: nose snoring results from blocked nostrils and is the primary snoring version. It can also result from a deviated septum, allergies, cold, or flu. If you find your nose stuffed, it is essential to know the reasons behind the clogging. After determining the cause, you can treat the condition as required. Taking allergy medications, quitting smoking, using nasal rinses, are getting corrective surgery for the deviated septum helps alleviate snoring.

• Mouth Snoring: when someone breathes through the mouth instead of the nose, it results in mouth snoring when sleeping. Mouth snoring is usually a result of enlarged tonsils, blocked nasal passages, or weak palatal tissue. When you can’t breathe through your nose, your body responds by breathing through the mouth. If you are affected by this issue, you may need help resolving the issue of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea in Boca Raton, FL.

• Throat Snoring: the loudest snoring you might hear, besides being the most dangerous, is throat snoring indicating that you have sleep apnea; making a visit to the dentist near you to seek a remedy for the problem is essential.

Blocking The Airway

Sleep apnea blocks your airway, causing you to stop and start breathing repeatedly when sleeping. The stoppage in breathing causes your body to choke you, causing you to cough and open the airway to breathe comfortably again. The occurrences can happen five to 30 times per hour, indicating varying degrees of severity of the condition.

Addressing Issues with Your Tongue

If your tongue relaxes when sleeping, it results in snoring with your tongue. This is because your tongue blocks the airway and generally occurs when you consume alcohol, use tranquilizers, or sleep on your back. You can address issues with your tongue by reducing your consumption of alcohol, quitting tranquilizers, and sleeping on your sides instead of your back. However, if you don’t find relief from these measures, you can seek treatment from the dental office in Boca Raton, providing an oral appliance pioneered by dentists to help alleviate the problem.

If your bed partner reports that you snore loudly and wake up briefly multiple times during the night, you must seek treatment for sleep apnea in Boca Raton, FL, before it creates additional complications.

When to See a Sleep Specialist?

Before you consider seeing a sleep specialist, you must visit the dentist’s office in Boca Raton to receive a referral from the practitioner to a sleep medicine specialist to determine whether the version of sleep apnea affecting you is mild, moderate, or severe. You must also explain the symptoms you experience, like daytime fatigue, irritability, lack of attention, or any other medical problems affecting you, for the dentist to give you the referral.

The sleep medicine specialist determines your condition by conducting a polysomnography test requiring you to stay at a sleep clinic overnight with wires and tubes attached to your body to measure the severity levels.

The specialist forwards your test report to the dentist, who, after careful evaluation, determines in consultation with the specialist whether you have mild or severe sleep apnea to create a treatment plan best suited for your situation.

If you have severe sleep apnea, you will require a CPAP device, considered the gold standard for any version of sleep apnea. However, if you are lucky to be affected by mild sleep apnea, the Boca Raton dentist provides dental TMJ sleep apnea treatment providing you with a customized oral appliance created explicitly for you and delivering quick results, unlike the CPAP device needing at least two weeks of use before you reduce snoring.

Oral appliances pioneered by dentists working with sleep medicine specialists are currently effective devices for a problem that can make you a victim of various medical conditions like cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and strokes. Therefore, when you receive reports of snoring loudly when sleeping, you must contact the Boca Raton specialist to receive treatment for the snoring and help alleviate other problems.

Drs. Reda Abdel-Fattah and Magda Abdel-Fattah. provide effective remedies for different versions of snoring by assessing your condition and referring you to a sleep medicine specialist. They can treat tongue snoring effectively with oral appliances besides mild obstructive sleep apnea. If you are affected by this problem, consult these doctors today to determine the severity of the condition and receive treatment from them before it aggravates.