Snoring is more than simply unwanted noise.
It is an alarm telling you there is something wrong with breathing during sleep!

BRAEBON® is your Snoring Solutions Provider

Diagnosis		Treatment
Braebon has assembled an array of diagnostic and therapeutic devices to successfully and easily diagnose and treat snoring and mild to moderate sleep apnea:

MediByte™ Snoring & Apnea Screener
MediByte™ Snoring & Sleep Apnea Screener is here now to enable the cardiologist, respirologist, or sleep specialist to differentiate snoring from sleep apnea. In addition, the MediByte™ offers the dentist a simple to use snoring and sleep apnea titration monitor to efficiently and effectively manage the oral appliance treatment of snoring and mild to moderate sleep apnea. If you can use a computer mouse, you can use the comprehensive yet simple MediByte™ as a tool in your clinical practice.


TheraSnore® Family of Oral Appliances
The TheraSnore® intraoral appliance is clinically proven to be 93% effective for the treatment of snoring and mild to moderate sleep apnea. Each TheraSnore® comes in a complete patient pack including one TheraSnore® intraoral appliance, one 12-oz bottle of OrthoFresh®, one toothbrush, and a user guide. Available in small, medium, or large size, the TheraSnore® is the world’s number one selling boil & bite snoring and sleep apnea appliance. View Product Page >>

The TheraSnore is an oral appliance that is worn during sleep. The TheraSnore is much like an athletic mouth guard, but with some of its own unique characteristics. The TheraSnore is fit in your doctor’s office in 20 minutes or less, and many people see positive results the first night. The TheraSnore appliance is 93% effective in the treatment for snoring.

Simple snoring, in most people, is caused because the amount of air going into the body is reduced. The body will increase the air flow to compensate for the reduced amount of air. By increasing the air flow, the velocity of the air entering the body is increased, thereby causing some fine tissues at the base of the throat to vibrate. This increase in air velocity and the vibration of tissue, creates the snoring noise.

The TheraSnore prevents the tongue and soft palate from falling back and obstructing the airway. It’s simple, you get more air, you don’t snore.


The Cleaner For All Dental Appliances
OrthoFresh® Cold Water Cleaner

People around the world use Ortho Fresh because Ortho Fresh is the simple, fast effective way to clean dentures and other dental appliances. Daily cleaning with Ortho Fresh will help maintain any dental appliance in a like-new condition. Here is all you need to do:

		Pour a half capful of mint-scented Ortho Fresh in a cup of cool/cold water.
		Soak appliance until foaming stops, approximately 15 minutes.
		Remove your clean, fresh-smelling dental appliance and rinse thoroughly.
		Let your dental appliance air dry.
		Don't Risk Damage By Using Warm or Hot Water! Some dental appliances can be damaged or distorted when they are cleaned or soaked in warm or hot water. Ortho Fresh uses only cool/cold water, and is specifically formulated to clean all "Thermal" Plastic appliances in cool/cold water. Originally developed to clean the patented TheraSnore®, anti-snoring appliance, Ortho Fresh is now used world-wide for all other removal dental appliances: dentures, athletic mouth guards, splints, and all anti-snoring appliances. Ortho Fresh is also an excellent cleaner for orthodontic retainers and night guards. Here's Why Hygienists Love Ortho Fresh How good is Ortho Fresh? Dental hygienists across the country use Ortho Fresh to clean your partials while performing routine cleaning. Ortho Fresh is so effective, according to hygienists that the partials come out sparking clean.  And patients say they love the clean mint flavor left behind compared to the standard tarter and stain remover.

What is snoring?
Snoring is unwanted, noisy breathing through the mouth or nose during sleep. During normal, healthy sleep there is a loss of muscle tone in the body. As the muscles in the throat relax, the airway partially narrows in association with this normal decrease in muscle tone. However, if the air flow in the nose and/or throat narrow too much snoring is produced. If air flow is totally obstructed sleep apnea occurs. Vibrations of tissues either in the soft palate, throat, uvula, tonsils or adenoids cause the fluttering sound known as snoring.



What are the health effects of snoring?
Most chronic snorers are often overweight and middle-aged. Snoring may indicate the more serious underlying medical condition sleep apnea (see below). Severe snoring can cause profound marital discord and sleep deprivation for both the snorer and bed partner. The effects of sleep deprivation are as follows:
• Severely reduced cognitive performance
• Increased risk for vehicular and industrial accidents
• Daytime sleepiness
• Reduced immune system responsiveness
• Decreased productivity
• Slower reaction time

In addition, some research has linked snoring to the following:

• Hypertension
• Premature death
• Type II diabetes
• High blood pressure
• Stroke
• Heart disease

Snoring vs. Sleep Apnea?
Snoring is loud, unwanted noise (sound) associated with breathing during sleep. At the other end of the sleep disordered breathing spectrum is sleep apnea which is a cessation of breathing for ten seconds or longer during sleep. A person with sleep apnea usually awakens hundreds of times during the night but usually does not remember the awakenings. Snoring is usually associated with sleep apnea but having snoring during sleep does not necessarily mean a person has sleep apnea. To properly differentiate primary snoring (simple snoring) from sleep apnea either a sleep diagnostic test must be done at home (i.e., unattended or domicilatory recording) or in the sleep laboratory (attended recording).
Once a proper diagnosis is made, a snoring treatment solution can be implemented.

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