Sleep related breathing disorders are more common than people think. This includes snoring—90 million adults suffer from snoring, with 37 million doing so regularly. The sleep apnea disorder affects some 30 million individuals, many of whom don’t realize it. This, of course, includes the family and individual residents of Rohnert Park, Cotati and Santa Rosa.

People who experience interrupted or disrupted sleep through a variety of mild to serious sleep conditions are also suffering from a lack of healthy sleep. This profoundly affects the person’s quality of life across their waking hours. In some cases the sleep apnea disorder can be dangerous.

Since the early 1990’s a professional dental approach has evolved to care for people with these conditions. The dental approach is called dental sleep medicine. Dental sleep medicine is a specialty oral care done by trained and certified dentists (as Dr. John Yun is) to diagnose the best approach for the patient, then craft customized oral appliances to treat the condition. The conditions most often treated by sleep specialty dentists are snoring and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). These appliances are also used for bruxism, the condition of grinding, gnashing or clenching teeth during sleep.

Dr. John Yun’s dental sleep care using oral appliances crafted specifically for your situation is non-intrusive. They are easy to wear (unlike CPAP, continuous positive airway pressure), and, of course, are silent, small, and easy to clean and maintain.

Medical doctors who are sleep specialists often refer their patients with these kinds of oral sleep disruptions to specialist dentists like Dr. John Yun. As soon as your doctor recommends dental sleep medicine please contact Dr. Yun’s office. Or you may talk about your condition with Dr. Yun so he can start planning with you your customized dental sleep-related treatment.