Just imagine sleeping on your back, snoring very loud and then stop breathing.  This can cost you your life!

Snoring and obstructive sleep apnea occurs in at least eight (8) different sites; your nose (deviated septum, enlarged nasal turbinates), soft palate and uvula (in the roof of your mouth), tonsils (on the back sides of your mouth), your tongue (which is one of the most important contributing factor for obstructive sleep apnea and will drop in the back of your throat when sleeping and blocks the airway).  This single factor is the main reason that laser treatment alone will not correct sleep apnea).  Other factors are receded chin (chin surgery)and jaw (Jaw or Orthognathic surgery).  You may also have a very narrow airway; the walls of your throat could be too thick, blocking the airway (pharyngeal muscle hypertrophy). This condition causes people to make a snoring sound deep from their throat.  Obviously, laser surgery in the roof of your mouth will not address any of these structures.  Position of your hyoid bone (Adams Apple) as well as epiglottis (tissues around your voice box) will contribute to some degree to snoring and sleep apnea).  

So as the air flows through your nose, mouth and throat, obstruction in any of these areas could cause snoring and sleep apnea.  If the throat structures such as the uvula, tonsils and even the tongue are too large or the muscles relax too much during sleep, the vibration of these structures as the air passes through will cause the snoring sound.  The air passage may also be too narrow and partially or even totally blocked. This could lead to stoppage of the airflow and sleep apnea.

The sound from this vibration is further magnified if:
The tissues are excessively long or floppy
You sleep on your back causing the tongue and soft palate to further obstruct the airway
You have a receded chin or jaw
If you smoke
If you have a drink with your dinner or there after

At times, this sound can be so loud that snorer wakes up others, or even themselves, during the night. Snoring gets worse as more and more of the air passage is blocked.

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