Snoring Toronto Clinic - Get This Expert Treatment

Toronto snoring clinic owner Dr. Richard Goodfellow has been successfully treating patients for many years who want to stop their snoring. He provides a thorough and proper diagnosis to discover the cause of the problem. After this, he will suggest treatment options for you to consider.

The sound from snoring while someone is asleep is mostly caused when the air entering the throat while breathing produces a vibration of both the soft palate and sides of the throat. When this happens, the muscles in the area fail to maintain their normal function as the airway collapses.

Dr. Goodfellow is a dentist with special training in diagnosing and treating the three related issues of snoring, sleep apnea and TMJ disorders.

Upon arriving at his clinic he will gather your appropriate medical and dental history and perform what is referred to as an intra-oral exam in order to find out where the blockage is and the cause of the obstruction that is causing your problem.

The solution is often as simple as having a qualified dentist such as him create a custom mouth piece to wear during sleep that makes subtle but important adjustments that, quite simply, stops snoring.

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Call Dr. Goodfellow's clinic toll free at 1-888-634-4273 to ask any questions you may have or to book an appointment for an initial assessment.

Call Dr. Goodfellow's office at 1-888-634-4273 to get an assessment like that described below in order to determine the real cause of your snoring and the treatment that is best for you.

In addition to completing a medical and dental history, a dentist who is properly trained to treat snoring will also perform the following procedures as part of a complete and thorough assessment.

An intra-oral assessment is performed by the specially trained dentist.

The periodontal health of the patient is assessed.

X-rays will be taken.

The TMJ is the temporomandibular joint which is located in front of the ears where the jaw and the skull comes together. An assessment of this joint will be performed since a disorder there can misalign the jaw and ultimately contribute to snoring.

Your occlusion is another term used by a dentist. This relates to your bite and how it is aligned. This will also be examined to check it's relationship to this problem.

Your gag reflex will also be checked.

An examination of your tonsils will be performed.

An orthopedic exam will be performed as well.

Finally, an airway evaluation with ecovision will be performed.

In many cases the solution to snoring can be as simple as wearing a special mouth guard at night. This is especially true when the assessment described above reveals that the patient has an enlarged tongue, a soft palate abnormality or chronically enlarged tonsils.

This is called a dental appliance or dental mouth guard and it is only worn during sleep. It is very light and very easy to wear. But what is does is remarkable. This special type of mouth gurad the proper dentist fits for you prevents your airway from collapsing by the process of creating more space.

The selection of the proper mouth guard and the fitting of it for a particular patient is only allowed to be performed by a specially trained dentist.

This type of dentist has also often taken extensive training in the assessment and treatment of TMJ disorders. That's because they are intimately familiar with how important a precise jaw position is, either to stop the pain someone feels from a TMJ jaw disorder or to stop a specific patient from snoring.

The simple purpose of the mouth guard is to gently move the lower jaw forward during sleep.

Since 1999 Toronto area dentist Dr. Goodfellow has invested thousands of hours in training related specifically to the treatment of disorders relating a jaw problem of one type or another. In his clinic he has successfully treated well over 650 patients for TMJ disorders, sleep apnea, and of course, snoring.

Call Dr. Goodfellow at 1-888-634-4273 if you have any questions or if you would like to book a personal appointment with him.