Breathe
Good health starts with breathing.
Our human health priority is in getting its next breath of air. Sometimes our body struggles to get enough air to keep us healthy and these struggles show up as so many other conditions.
Click below to learn how this causes these conditions and it can be fixed.
Snoring
Sleep Apnea
Tired
Kid's Sleep Issues
CPAP Intolerance
Snoring
This habit is often shrugged off as annoying and embarrassing but nothing to be worried about. In reality, snoring can affect so much of life, having physical, mental and social repercussions.
What is a snore?
A snore is the noisy breathing sounds, like whistles, wheezes or rattles that signal that there is a blockage in the airway.
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Prevalence of Snoring in the US
Symptoms of Snoring
The primary symptom of snoring is unmistakable – the often loud, harsh or hoarse noises that you make while you are asleep. Other symptoms may include waking up with a sore throat or dry mouth.
Is it Snoring or Sleep Apnea?
Sleep apnea is a disorder that causes you to temporarily stop breathing when you are asleep. If you are regularly tired during the day even though you have had sufficient sleep or if your snoring is paired with choking or gasping sound, you may have sleep apnea.
Our Solutions for Snoring
Nightlase
Shrinks up flabby throat tissue without surgery. more
Oral Appliance
Holds your jaw forward while you sleep so it doesn’t drop back and interfere with breathing.
Sleep Study
Determine snoring vs sleep apnea with an easy take-home sleep test.
Vivos Breathing Treatment
Improve breathing permanently by redeveloping the shape of your airway. Learn more
Call for an evaluation...Today!
Besides one on one consultations, we also offer a free patient education talk in the evening a couple of times per month. It is a wonderful learning opportunity and can help you decide what treatment is right for you or your child.
Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea can make you wake up in the morning feeling tired or unrefreshed even though you have had a full night of sleep. During the day, you may feel fatigued, have difficulty concentrating or you may even unintentionally fall asleep. This is because your body is waking up numerous times throughout the night, even though you might not be conscious of each awakening.
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Increased Risk of Stroke with Sleep Apnea
Symptoms of Sleep Apnea
- Excessive daytime sleepiness
- Choking or gasping while you sleep
- Pauses in breathing
- Morning headaches
- Difficulty concentrating
- Moodiness, irritability or depression
- Frequent need to urinate during the night
Consequences of Sleep Apnea
- High blood pressure
- Heart disease
- Stroke
- Pre-diabetes and diabetes
- Depression
Our Solutions for Sleep Apnea
Myofunctional Therapy
Trains the tongue to be toned and in the right spot so it stays out of the way of breathing.
Oral Appliance
Holds your jaw forward while you sleep so it doesn’t drop back and interfere with breathing.
Sleep Study
Determine how many times per hour your breathing gets interrupted with an easy take-home sleep test.
Vivos Breathing Treatment
Improve breathing permanently by redeveloping the shape of your airway. Learn more
Tired
Our bodies are designed to run off of 7-8 good hours of sleep each night. When we don’t get this amount and quality of sleep we can end up with concentration and attention problems, lowered energy level, reduced alertness, distractibility, irritability or fatigue.
Why do I feel like I don’t get “good” sleep?
The inability to fall asleep or stay asleep is usually the main culprit. This produces fragmented sleep that keeps you from going into the restorative sleep phases that you need.
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Prevalence of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
Yes, Good Breathing is Essential
Having a skinny nose, a clogged nose, skinny jaws, crooked teeth, big tongue, cold fingertips, mouth breathing, or bags under the eyes are clues that you could improve your nighttime breathing and start feeling better.
Are you being subtly woken up many times throughout the night because your body is starved for oxygen?
Consequences of Fragmented Sleep
We are supposed to wake up refreshed, ready to take on the day, not needing to run to Starbucks. We need to have enough good sleep to let the body heal and repair itself, clear our mind and prepare us for the day.
But, as important as sleep is, we will automatically disturb our sleep in order to take our next breath if needed. This can happen every minute of sleep, or more!
Our Solutions for Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
Myofunctional Therapy
Trains the tongue to be toned and in the right spot so it stays out of the way of breathing.
Oral Appliance
Holds your jaw forward while you sleep so it doesn’t drop back and interfere with breathing.
Sleep Study
Find out how well you sleep with an easy take-home sleep test.
Vivos Breathing Treatment
Improve breathing permanently by redeveloping the shape of your airway. Learn more
Call for an evaluation...Today!
Besides one on one consultations, we also offer a free patient education talk in the evening a couple of times per month. It is a wonderful learning opportunity and can help you decide what treatment is right for you or your child.
Kid's Sleep/Breathing Issues
Did you know that bedwetting and other behavioral problems can be linked to childhood sleep disorders? In fact, 9 out of 10 children suffer from sleep-disordered breathing symptoms, including bedwetting.
Consequences of Sleep Disorders in Kids
Behavioral Issues
Sleep-disordered breathing is commonly misdiagnosed as ADD, ADHD, or other behavioral problems in children. Many of our young patients have been able to come off medication thanks to their sleep apnea treatment.
Bed Wetting
Bedwetting is more common than you think. One in six kids (actually 18.1%) ages 4-12 suffer from bedwetting. Bedwetting can be caused by an imbalance of oxygen due to airway constriction and mouth breathing.
Night Terrors
Despite being “asleep,” the subtle form of suffocation from the reduction in oxygen is very unsettling to the brain. It can create a “flight or fight” response and is sometimes accompanied by nightmares or night terrors—all of which results in restless sleep.
Our Solutions for Sleep Disorders in Kids
Myofunctional Therapy
Trains the tongue to be toned and in the right spot so it stays out of the way of breathing.
Oral Appliance
Helps develop your child’s jaw so that teeth will come in straight and the airway will be the proper size.
Breathing Evaluation
Find out how well your child is breathing including evaluation of the tonsils.
Vivos Breathing Treatment
Improve breathing permanently by redeveloping the shape of your child’s airway. Learn more
CPAP Intolerance
The effectiveness of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is potentially high for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, but accounting for the relatively low acceptance and compliance, and correcting for sleep time, its actual effect and use, the adjusted CPAP effectiveness remains relatively low.
Our Solutions for CPAP Intolerance
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Percentage of people that abandon their CPAP
Myofunctional Therapy
Trains the tongue to be toned and in the right spot so it stays out of the way of breathing. This can cut sleep apnea severity in half.
Oral Appliance
Holds your jaw forward while you sleep so it doesn’t drop back and interfere with breathing.
Vivos Breathing Treatment
Improve breathing permanently by redeveloping the shape of your airway. Learn more
Our Location
Our Location
Camarillo Smiles
92 Palm Drive
Camarillo, CA 93010
Our Hours
| MON | 7:00am - 8:00pm |
| TUES | 7:00am - 8:00pm |
| WED | 7:00am - 8:00pm |
| THUR | 7:00am - 8:00pm |
| FRI | 7:00am - 5:00pm |
| SAT | 8:00am - 1:00pm |
Call us 805-388-5700
Email: info@CamarilloSmiles.com
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