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So sleep is something that I sort of found as a niche in this practice. Sleep is important for everyone’s overall health. I think, especially lately, more people have understood how important getting good sleep is, and how that’s related to every system in your body. With that, I’ve been trained to treat obstructive sleep apnea with what’s called an oral device. Basically with sleep apnea, you have your airways closing periodically throughout the night and you stop breathing. So what that does is it obviously wakes you up so you can reopen your airway. It’s also cutting off that oxygen from the rest of your body. Some people can use what’s called a CPAP for that to fix the situation, but most people find that very uncomfortable, and they sleep worse when they have that on, just because it can be fairly claustrophobic. With an oral device, I basically take molds of your upper, and lower teeth and your bite, and we make you the device that pulls your lower jaw forward. What that does is it pulls your tongue forward, which kind of tightens up that musculature of the airway so that it won’t collapse at night. And what’s great with this is it usually is more comfortable than a CPAP. It’s easier to travel with, and it’s making sure that you’re getting the oxygen that you need throughout the night.