{"id":274,"date":"2013-01-23T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.drbobbycarmen.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2013-01-14T18:29:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:29:41","slug":"could-you-be-suffering-from-sleep-apnea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/could-you-be-suffering-from-sleep-apnea\/","title":{"rendered":"Could You Be Suffering From Sleep Apnea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-275\" style=\"margin: 8px 10px;\" title=\"sleep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sleep-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sleep-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sleep.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Snoring, while annoying to those in your household, is usually a harmless habit. Sometimes, it even takes years before someone lets you know you\u2019re a victim of the condition \u2013 usually a tired spouse, or an annoyed friend at a sleepover when you\u2019re still young. But did you know that snoring can actually indicate a much more serious problem? If you\u2019re a chronic snorer, you might also be suffering from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/snoreguards-for-sleep-apnea.html\"><strong>sleep apnea<\/strong><\/a>. At its core, <strong>sleep apnea<\/strong> is a condition that affects the way you breathe while you\u2019re sleeping, causing your air intake to lessen or even stop altogether for seconds at a time, up to hundreds of time a night. <strong>Sleep apnea<\/strong> is a serious condition that can lead to complications down the road if left untreated. Thankfully, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/meet-the-dentist.html\">Dr. Bobby Carmen<\/a> is happy to help, here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/contact.html\">his Norman office<\/a>. Our team is committed to providing you with a comfortable and effective solution for your <strong>sleep apnea<\/strong>, letting you and your family get back to safe, peaceful slumber.<\/p>\n<p>But first, how can you tell if you have <strong>sleep apnea<\/strong>? Here are some of the most common symptoms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choking, snorting, or gasping during sleep<\/li>\n<li>Chronic sleepiness during the daytime, no matter how much sleep you got the night before<\/li>\n<li>Waking up with a dry mouth or throat after sleep<\/li>\n<li>Loud snoring<\/li>\n<li>Long periods of silence when sleeping \u2013 check with your spouse to see if this sounds familiar!<\/li>\n<li>Morning headaches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Those sound familiar! What can you do to help me? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Never fear \u2013 <strong>Dr. Carmen<\/strong> takes <strong>sleep apnea<\/strong> very seriously, and he has an easy solution so that you can get the rest and peace of mind you deserve. We will have a mouthpiece custom-made to fit your unique features, commonly known as a snoreguard. As long as you wear the snoreguard during sleep, your airways will always be held open, getting rid of that pesky snoring as well as eliminating dangerous lapses in breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Our team wants to give you a reason to smile! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/contact.html\">Call<\/a> our Norman dental office today to schedule a consultation for your <strong>sleep apnea<\/strong> treatment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/meet-the-dentist.html\">Dr. Carmen<\/a> also serves patients from <strong>Moore, The University of Oklahoma, Central Oklahoma, and beyond<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snoring, while annoying to those in your household, is usually a harmless habit. Sometimes, it even takes years before someone lets you know you\u2019re a victim of the condition \u2013 usually a tired spouse, or an annoyed friend at a sleepover when you\u2019re still young. But did you know that snoring can actually indicate a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,134,245,70,130,132,131,133,95],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-central-oklahoma","tag-central-oklahoma-dentist","tag-dr-bobby-carmen","tag-moore","tag-sleep-apnea-dentist","tag-sleep-apnea-norman","tag-sleep-apnea-norman-dentist","tag-snoreguard","tag-the-university-of-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}