The Woodlands, TX 77384
(936) 321 - 1477
Dentistry in The Woodlands
Sleep Medicine
Do you or your sleeping partner suffer with snoring, daytime drowsiness, or irritability? Do you wake with headaches or feel unrefreshed after sleeping all night? Sleep breathing disorders can compromise your quality of life, but more concerning, sleep breathing disorders can often compromise your overall health as well.
As a dentist, Dr. Barber is uniquely positioned to assist patients with snoring or sleep breathing disorders such as sleep apnea. Oral sleep appliance therapy and Pillar Palatal Implants are among the treatment options Dr. Barber provides patients suffering from sleep breathing disorders.
Some doctors recommend CPAP or BiPAP, sleep breathing machines, to treat snoring and sleep apnea. These machines are noisy and cumbersome, and many patients discontinue treatment after just a few nights. If you are currently being treated with a CPAP or BiPAP, and find it intolerable, see Dr. Barber for alternate sleep treatment options. Patients with mild to moderate sleep apnea often find relief with an oral sleep appliance.
Imagine how you – and your sleeping partner – would feel if you could rest comfortably and silently night after night. Also imagine improving your overall health and quality of life by decreasing or eliminating the cause for and effects of high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, brain damage, depression, erectile dysfunction, diabetes, inability to lose weight, and attention deficit disorder. These conditions, and many others, are often associated with sleep breathing disorders such as snoring and sleep apnea.
If you have any of the following, you may have a sleep breathing disorder:
- Daytime drowsiness or fatigue
- Loud, recurring snoring
- Choking or gasping for air in your sleep
- A man with neck size greater than 17 inches
- A woman with neck size greater than 16 inches
- Stop breathing while asleep
- Are overweight
- Trouble losing weight
- Unexplained weight gain
- High blood pressure
- Acid reflux
- History of stroke or heart attack
- Fall asleep during the day when activity is low
- Family history of sleep apnea
During your consultation, Dr. Barber will review the severity of your condition and discuss dental sleep treatment. It is always best to have had a sleep study conducted; however, this may not be necessary in treatment for pure snoring.
Learn more about how to improve your life, sleep better, and live longer at Dr. Barber’s sleep medicine website, www.shhsleep.com. There you can take a simple sleep test to assess your symptoms.
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From our state-of-the-art dental office in The Woodlands, Dr. Timothy Barber and our experienced team provide comprehensive dental care to patients from Conroe, Spring, and the greater Houston area. If you have questions or would like to reserve your dental sleep medicine appointment call us today at 936-321-1477 or email us here.
Dr. Timothy M. Barber is a general and cosmetic dentist in The Woodlands, TX. His services include sleep apnea therapy, implant dentistry, smile makeovers, laser dentistry, porcelain veneers, sedation dentistry, Zoom! teeth whitening, and Invisalign clear braces. For more information, contact Dr. Barber's dental office in The Woodlands.