Snoring solutions
What can cause snoring?
Snoring dental concerns can be properly diagnosed and addressed by your dentist at mydentist. Snoring dental problems may be a symptom of a more complicated medical condition.
A person snores when the soft tissues on their upper airways collapse against each other, causing these tissues to vibrate as the person tries to breathe and pass air through them.
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Snoring can be a result of a combination of factors:
- A large tongue
- A long soft palate
- Excess fat deposits in the throat area
- Large tonsils
- Incorrect jaw position
- Nasal passageway obstruction
- Sleeping on one's back, causing to the tongue dropping to the back of the mouth
Treatments
There are a number of ways to treat snoring and dental problems; the treatment will depend on the severity of the snoring and dental concerns, and on the dentist's diagnosis of the symptoms.
A dentist snoring specialist will be able to help you get the right treatment.