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Making of unintentionally unpleasing noises while sleeping at night is known as snoring. This noise is made when excess tissues in the nose, mouth and throat obstruct the airway and vibrate. Snoring is caused by many factors and is often not just a minor nuisance, it can be a major health risk. Obesity, sleep position and increasing age may also cause snoring as the muscles in the throat get loose. Depending on what the cause of the snoring is, there are many things that can be done about it.

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

1. Surgery, including Sinus surgery

If the problem is serious and structural, there may need to be surgery. In sinus surgery, the air chambers present on either side of nose and between eyes, called sinuses, are removed. There are our pairs of these chambers called frontal, maxillary, sphenoid and ethnocide. Any blockage of the drainage system of the sinuses such as that with allergies or colds can causes infection. The procedure is not painful. The patient is anesthetized and the nose is examined with an operating telescope. Micro instruments are used in the whole surgery to remove and any areas of the blockage. Serious complications will rarely occur in this surgery. Bleeding is the most serious potential consequence.

2. Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

Sinus surgery

Sinuses are the air chambers present on both sides of nose and between your eyes. Mucus which helps to keep your throat and nose moist and healthy gets infected if the drainage channels of the sinuses get blocked from a cold or allergies. It can be treated by antibiotics and with nose drops. If these measures fail to cure the problem, an operation may be required.

This is not generally a painful operation. The person is given an anesthesia and the nose is examined using an operating telescope. Using micro instruments, the areas of blockage and the polyps are removed. Possible complications are bruising around the eye, infection, CSF leak and bleeding.

A jaw positioning device designed by a dentist pulls your tongue further away from sliding backwards to the back of the throat. It is like a splint worn at night to hold your lower jaw forward and keep tissues from blocking your airway. Jaw positioning devices vary in price. There are various types of splints available. For some people the splint is not that comfortable, and in those cases a custom fitted is usually recommended. The splint is used by the people to loose their weight.

Losing weight

Losing weight Overweight people have excess fat in their neck, causing their airway to narrow and leading to vibration of the soft tissue or snoring. Loosing weight will help to reduce those fatty tissue of the neck.