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Have you been losing sleep? Sleeping too much? Naturally, it is more difficult to catch a good night’s sleep when you are experiencing high levels of stress and anxiety. During this time of uncertainty and worry, the Covid-19 pandemic may be affecting your sleep schedule. If you are finding that it is more difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep, you could be experiencing insomnia. Stress is the number one cause of insomnia and it is no doubt that everyone is dealing with loads of stress at this time. Different lifestyle adjustments such as children out of school, working from...

Many medical experts believe that sleep apnea patients face an increased risk of glaucoma. Some studies even show that the optic nerve could be damaged due to hypoxia (low oxygen level) without a spike in eye pressure. There are both vascular and mechanical factors that are involved in the pathological mechanism of the optic nerve damage: Vascular factors are mainly the outcomes of repetitive or prolonged episodes of hypoxia, due to repetitive prolonged upper airway obstruction. This includes direct damage to the optic nerve, oxidative stress and inflammation, increased vascular resistance, autonomic dysfunction, increased intracranial pressure and decreased cerebral perfusion. Hypoxia also...

If you feel as though you’ve had a restful sleep yet still feel drowsy the next day, sound could be a possible reason. While you sleep, your brain continues to register and process sounds on a basic level. Noise causes you to wake up, move, shift between stages of sleep, or experience a change in heart rate and blood pressure so briefly that you don’t remember the next morning. Noises are more likely to wake you from a light sleep (stages 1 and 2), than from a deep sleep (stages 3 and 4), and tend to be more disruptive in the...

The most common sleep problems that are associated with headaches are sleep apnea, sleep deprivation, and insomnia. In fact, 90% of people with sleep apnea reported to stop having morning headaches after starting CPAP therapy.  Patients who suffer from sleep apnea have partially or completely blocked airways during sleep. In result, this closure reduces the amount of oxygen that gets transported to the brain. This reduction of oxygen is what causes vascular headaches. Vascular headaches are usually located in the frontal areas but can also involve the entire head. Another effect of sleep apnea is the inability to get enough REM...

If you have mild or moderate snoring and/or sleep apnea, you could be treated with Dental Oral Appliance Therapy. Alternatively, they can be used in conjunction with CPAP devices in order to improve comfort  The objective of oral appliances is to realign the lower jaw by shifting it forward. If the lower jaw is too far back it reduces space in the airway. Realigning and stabilizing the jaw can increase muscle tone and create more room in the throat for air to pass. In result, this reduces the air resistance that caused snoring and sleep apnea.  Oral appliances are a...