Sleep Apnea & Snoring Treatment in Northern Phoenix, AZ
Sleep Apnea Treatments in Phoenix
If you suspect you have sleep apnea, you may be a candidate for a simple oral appliance that will help you breathe easily again.
It’s difficult to know for sure if sleep apnea is the cause of your exhaustion and unhealthy body, but we can help. Sleep apnea treatment in Phoenix, AZ begins with a phone call to Dr. Cavendish.
After diagnosis and treatment, you can expect the following benefits: more restful sleep, a healthier, more energetic body, a reduced risk of serious health concerns, like heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, and a happier partner, who has probably also been struggling to sleep!
Sleep apnea is a serious condition where you stop breathing repeatedly at night, but we can help. Call 602-835-1304 today and get help quickly!
Know the First Signs of Sleep Apnea
While you sleep, you make noise. Most of the time, it’s not very loud. You might breathe loudly, mumble, or even snore on occasion. All of that is normal and not a problem.
People who suffer from sleep apnea, however, do a lot more than occasionally snore. The snoring happens almost every night for hours and hours. It’s loud and disruptive. It wakes you up, but as soon as you start to wake, the problem goes away. You fall back asleep, snore, wake, fall back to sleep, and on and on.
In a given night, someone suffering from serious sleep apnea can “wake up” more than 200 times.
Understanding the Three Types Of Sleep Apnea
There are three types of sleep apnea:
- Obstructive: When you sleep, the muscles around your throat relax. This allows your tongue or soft tissues to close off your throat entirely, forcing you to wake up in a panic even without you being aware that you’re waking up.
- Central: During sleep, your brain doesn’t send the messages needed to keep breathing.
- Complex: This unfortunate condition combines both obstructive and central sleep apnea.
Despite the differences in these types of sleep apnea, the effects are mostly the same.
Losing Some Sleep Is a Big Problem
Simply put, your body and brain need sleep. Without rest, your body doesn’t heal as well. Your mind will also be fatigued. When you are sleep deprived from sleep apnea, you face immediate problems like irritability, fatigue, inattention, mood swings, being prone to mistakes, and even increased risk of car accidents. Your work and social life will soon start to suffer.
Those are just the short-term problems. In the long term, people with sleep apnea face depression, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. Because of the lack of oxygen levels and rest, sleep apnea can have a serious impact on your health.
Get Modern Sleep Apnea Treatment
If you have sleep apnea, don’t worry. There are ways to work around it so you can finally get some sleep. For instance, if you have obstructive sleep apnea, a great sleep apnea treatment is an oral appliance that provides relief.
This is a small mouthguard-like device that you wear at night when you sleep. It shifts your jaw slightly, which helps keep your windpipe open during sleep. And for some patients, your Phoenix, AZ sleep apnea treatment can be billed to your medical insurance.
Let Us Help You Diagnose Sleep Apnea
If you or someone you love is snoring badly almost every night, there’s a good chance sleep apnea is the cause. However, unlike in the past, where diagnosis required an overnight stay at a sleep center, today there is a test you can do at home. It’s called, appropriately, a home sleep test, and it is offered at our Phoenix, AZ dental office to diagnose sleep apnea treatment. You will wear a small device at night, and while you sleep, it collects data that Dr. Matthew Cavendish will send to a neurologist for proper diagnosis.
You can also get your throat checked using an oropharyngeal meter. It measures the back of your tongue and size of your throat to see how likely they are to create breathing problems while you sleep. An acoustic rhinometer uses sound to measure your nasal passages and detect obstruction and congestion.
Please Call Us to Schedule a Consultation
To learn more about how you can get sleep apnea treatment and finally get some rest or to schedule your next appointment with Dr. Matthew Cavendish, call our Phoenix, AZ dental office today at 602-835-1304 or fill out our online form.
