A 39-year-old member asked:
What's best used to take care of a snoring problem?
2 doctor answers • 3 doctors weighed in
Dr. Carlo Hatemanswered
Pulmonary Critical Care 27 years experience
See your doctor: Snoring indicates that air is not flowing freely to your lungs. Most commonly it indicates sleep apnea. Talk to your doctor about a sleep study.
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Dr. Mark Birnbachanswered
Cosmetic Dentistry 50 years experience
Snoring remedies: Options include:
avoiding sleeping on one's back.(sew a pocket on the back of a t-shirt and put a tennis ball in it)
have an ENT check nasal passages-tonsils, adenoids, deviated septum, polyps .
Weight loss
wearing a dental device that holds the lower jaw forward thereby increasing airway at back of throat.
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Last updated Oct 23, 2017
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