{"id":800,"date":"2013-05-14T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crooksenmark.wpengine.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2013-05-14T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:04:24","slug":"somnomed-the-alternative-treatment-for-obstructive-sleep-apnea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/media\/somnomed-the-alternative-treatment-for-obstructive-sleep-apnea\/","title":{"rendered":"SomnoMED, the Alternative Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>If you have found the CPAP method uncomfortable, now you can wake up to a brilliant alternative<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SomnoMED-the-Alternative-Treatment-for-Obstructive-Sleep-Apnea.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-800];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-802\" alt=\"SomnoMED-the-Alternative-Treatment-for-Obstructive-Sleep-Apnea\" src=\"https:\/\/www.www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SomnoMED-the-Alternative-Treatment-for-Obstructive-Sleep-Apnea.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SomnoMED-the-Alternative-Treatment-for-Obstructive-Sleep-Apnea.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SomnoMED-the-Alternative-Treatment-for-Obstructive-Sleep-Apnea-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sleep apnea is a debilitating disease and can sometimes be fatal. Sleep apnea is similar to snoring, but whereas snoring is only a partial closure of the back of your throat, sleep apnea is the complete closure of the back of your throat, causing a lack of oxygen that results in the brain kick-starting the breathing process. This often results in you constantly waking throughout the night. This kind of stop-start breathing can be detrimental to your health because with prolonged apnea (not breathing) the amount of oxygen in vital organs such as the brain, lungs and kidney can drop so low that cellular damage can occur. This is called hypoxia and can lead to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Stroke: 40-80% of stroke suffers also suffer from Sleep Apnea<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Heart attack or heart failure: having sleep apnea exposes you to four times the risk of a heart attack.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Depression<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Diabetes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Severe blood pressure elevation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On top of all this sleep apnea is being seen as a leading cause of motor vehicle accidents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/services\/tmj-therapy-night-guards-sports-mouth-guards-sacramento\/\">Obstructive Sleep Apnea<\/a> (OSA) suffers may experience hundreds of apnea episodes a night and, if they live alone or sleep alone are unlikely to remember the episodes. In fact, for those who sleep alone, they may not know they suffer from OSA even after many years.<\/p>\n<h3>At Michelle Enmark, DDS in Sacramento our specialist trained dentists are here to help you tackle your sleep apnea\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>OSA is a serious medical condition that can severely impact your life. If you display symptoms of OSA it is imperative that you visit us at<a title=\"SomnoMED, the Alternative Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/\"> Michelle Enmark, DDS <\/a>in <a title=\"SomnoMED, the Alternative Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/\">Sacramento<\/a> for a diagnosis. Some of these symptoms are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Loud snoring<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Excessive daytime sleepiness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Depression<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Fatigue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Reduced resistance to infection<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>SomnoMED vs. CPAP\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>Usually, a patient with Sleep Apnea is often at first provided a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine as the first step in treatment. But there are a lot of patients who are unable to deal with the unpleasantness of wearing a CPAP mask all night. Among the reasons patients dislike the CPAP are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The mask intrudes on intimacy that occurs when wearing it to bed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Frequent awakenings from mask discomfort\u2014nearly as many as the sleep apnea itself.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Noise emitted by the machine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Dry mouth or nasal congestion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Feelings of claustrophobia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Accordingly, it&#8217;s no surprise that less than 30% of patients actually use CPAP as prescribed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The serious problems from Sleep Apnea quickly return.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How does this device work?<\/h3>\n<p>The SomnoDent\u00ae MAS is much more effective comfortable than existing MAS devices: for the treatment of Sleep Apnea the SomnoDent\u00ae MAS is worn throughout sleep to uphold the patency of the upper airway by increasing its dimensions and reducing collapsibility.<\/p>\n<p>This device is custom-made oral device comprised of an upper and lower dental plates containing unique patented fin coupling component to keep-up mandible protrusion.<br \/>\nThis mechanism is the key difference to other oral devices because it allows the patient to maintain regular mouth opening and closing while wearing the SomnoDent\u00ae MAS.<\/p>\n<h3>At Michelle Enmark, DDS in Sacramento we understand that each patient is an individual whose needs differ from the next person&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>Therefor we offer a number of customizable additions to the SomnoDent\u00ae MAS. Such additions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Elastic retention for mouth breathers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">an anterior ramp for bruxing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Worn in the mouth like any other orthodontic appliance during sleep, oral appliances prevent the soft tissue from collapsing and interrupting normal breathing patterns.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on SomnoDent\u00ae MAS, or to book an appointment at our conveniently located dental practice in Sacramento, please do not hesitate to <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"https:\/\/www.www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/contact-crooks-enmark-dentists-sacramento\/\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have found the CPAP method uncomfortable, now you can wake up to a brilliant alternative Sleep apnea is a debilitating disease and can sometimes be fatal. Sleep apnea is similar to snoring, but whereas snoring is only a partial closure of the back of your throat, sleep apnea is the complete closure of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SomnoMED, the Alternative Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea! - Michelle Enmark, DDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/media\/somnomed-the-alternative-treatment-for-obstructive-sleep-apnea\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"rsmm-admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/media\/somnomed-the-alternative-treatment-for-obstructive-sleep-apnea\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.crooksenmarkdds.com\/media\/somnomed-the-alternative-treatment-for-obstructive-sleep-apnea\/\",\"name\":\"SomnoMED, the Alternative Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea! 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