Intro music Hi, I'm Dr Tom Hedge with the houston dentists dot com I want to talk to you about snoring and how that relates to sleep apnea you see story can be one most annoying things and and sometimes for yourself but most often for your rib cage as your spouse elbows you in tells you to roll on your back or roll on your side and i just could be disturbing not only your your spouse's night sleeping yours as well so when we snore what happens is our soft tissue sort of just collapses with our tongue in the back of our throats and it rattles around and it blocks your airway so you can't breathe and then sometimes you'll snort and wake yourself up that can be an awful thing and that's what sleep apnea is all about all those instances of being woken up through the night sometimes people can do that hundreds of times in an hour imagine what that does your body it's not good we in dentistry you can help you we can make an appliance that brings your lower jaw forward opens up your airway and turns that cocktail straw into a nice big straw to breathe through so you can get a good night's sleep and wake up nice and refreshed in the morning