Important to know
what is it ?
SNORING DEFINITION
Principle, mechanism: opening of the mouth and breathing causing the lower jaw to fall down and back, resulting in breathing through the mouth and causing the soft palate to vibrate.
The habit of breathing through the mouth becomes a reflex and this, as with all reflexes, is impossible to control.
Now the re-education of nasal breathing is possible, and this is the innovation provided by DUAL CONFORT® in relation to other treatments currently available.
DUAL CONFORT® re-educates nasal breathing.
DEFINITION OF SLEEP APNOEA
A condition in which breathing stops during sleep, with harmful consequences for the person and increasing the risk of premature death of cardiovascular origin by 4 to 7 times.
Difficulty waking up in the morning, daytime asthenia, with difficulty concentrating, drowsiness, and inability to stay awake.
The risk of premature death of cardiovascular origin can be divided by 7 with the Continuous Positive Airway Pressure treatment.
Solutions usually available:
• Sprays:
Spraying a silicon film on the soft palate (lubricating).
• Splints:
A mouthpiece that holds the jaw in a forward position.
• Surgical operation:
It consists of tightening the soft palate tissues.
• Continuous Positive Airway Pressure:
The subject wears a mask that covers the nose held in place by straps at the back of the head.
A tube connects the mask to a compressor. The opening of the mouth changes the pressure, which results in the increase in air pressure into the nose, causing the reflex closing of the mouth. The CPAP is effective but very restrictive.
• Various commercial proposals:
There are many weird solutions, the effectiveness and seriousness of which are almost impossible to measure in terms of results.
Testing
DUAL CONFORT®
Using DUAL CONFORT® a test series have been launched with volunteer "loud snorers" (from 55dB to 90dB).
• “Very satisfied” patients are those who have re-educated their breathing, i.e. after several months, the wearing of the orthosis proves no longer necessary.
• “Satisfied” patients are those who no longer snore but who must put the orthosis in every night.
• “Not satisfied” patients are those who have abandoned the test programme for various reasons, the principal one of which is a chronic cough (expulsion of the orthosis during sleep) then the inconvenience of poor regulation of saliva.
In addition to the 92% success rate, the great surprise was to note the phenomenon of the re-education of the breathing of 51 patients, i.e. 42% of the subjects.
These 92% of patients were snorers through the mouth. By suppressing their snoring through the mouth, six of them discovered that they were also nasal snorers. Nasal snoring is due to the morphological configuration, it is less noisy and not a recognised source of sleep apnoea.
Concerning the remaining 8% who decided to interrupt the programme for their own reasons, which we respect, we note that it involved patients with nocturnal coughs (smokers) or excessive salivation.