Anyone has had braces fitted to help with snoring?

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Snoring that comes from the throat, not so much the nose.

it’s seems a very slow process to expand the palate/move teeth to help with snoring.
Have you tried mouth taping? With your mouth closed you wouldn’t be mouth breathing and snoring from the throat.

Never heard of that. Have you tried it?

I had four teeth removed as a teen but didn't have the braces that should have followed. My dentist recently recommended I either have braces or the teeth replaced with false ones. She said it would help my breathing and I do snore badly these days. I feel a bit pissed off at the shitty treatment I had in the past.

I spent the money on a holiday instead. Will think again in a wee while.

I tend to breathe through my mouth and I found that mouth taping helped me to breathe through my nose when sleeping, although I still needed braces to expand my palate. I used micropore tape and stuck it to the back of my hand once or twice to stop it being quite so sticky, then applied it vertically across the centre of my mouth. It should be just enough to keep your mouth closed but not so much that it's difficult to open your mouth.

Are you talking about braces or a mandibular repositioning device https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/health-information/mandibular-repositioning-appliance-mra.

In general braces to expand the palate need to be placed when someone is in pubertal growth spurt ,around age 12 to 13 , so it's used to guide natural growth. By the time you reach adulthood it's too late for this type of brace and in order to expand the jaw you are looking at surgery.

There are many reasons someone snores and , in general , stopping smoking, cutting down alcohol and loosing weight, so that your collar size is below 17 inches for a man and 16 inches for a woman , helps.

Snoring can be associated with a serious health problem called sleep apnoea , so investigations via a sleep clinic and overnight monitoring should be done to rule this out.

In general sleep devices are not available on the NHS . They have their pluses and minuses so you need to see a dentist who does them to discuss. If I think they might help I often suggest trying an off the shelf model first then make a "proper" sleep appliance. Expect to pay upwards of £500 for an appliance and you will need regular check ups as they can result in tooth movement so need monitoring .

Thank you so much @Lollygaggle. It sounds like I am looking for a MRA. Is this something the orthodontist can help with?

I had this all done as a teen. Unfortunately I never had much of a growth spurt, so it was a long, tedious process lasting years and incredibly painful. After 4 years I declined any more treatment as the contraptions were impacting my ability to speak and sleep.

I drool and snore now. And it's far preferable!

No , you need to first see doctor to rule out sleep apnoea . The gold standard for treatment for sleep apnoea is a cpap machine .

If you have had that ruled out you then need to see a dentist who has been trained to provide a sleep appliance. Not all dentists have and it will be private. Orthodontists provide braces but not sleep appliances.

I do this too. Radically changed my sleep quality, and no more snoring.

I might give the tape a try, thanks. Any tape in particular?

I use micropore, but have used some specially stickers from Amazon in the past which also worked well.