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Stop Snoring Mouthpiece - Does It Work To Cure Snoring?
The stop snoring mouthpiece is an oral appliance worn at night before sleeping to help reduce or eliminate snoring. When deciding which stop snoring mouthpiece to purchase, it is important to do your research first to see which product has proven results.
The stop snoring mouthpiece is designed in such a way that it will clear the airway passages and lessen the disrupting sound. There are two known variations, the tongue retaining device and the jaw retainers. So how do they work? Are they comfortable to wear? These are the two raising questions that we would try to give answers in this article.
The tongue retaining device known as the TRD is an oral appliance that is made of soft plastic and has a tongue-sized suction cup that pulls the tongue forward and hold it in that position. It is gripped by the teeth to held it in place and supposedly clears the airway passages. It is applicable for people who have mild to moderate snoring and who are not obese. Most likely candidates would be those snorers whose major cause of snoring is improper sleeping position.
Another stop snoring mouthpiece is the jaw retainers known as mandibular advancement device (MAD). This is a dental appliance that looks like retainers that holds the lower jaw forward. They have metal loops over several teeth to hold it in place while one is asleep. Some are adjustable while some device are custom fitted.
Some people find these oral devices uncomfortable to wear while some are able to get used to it after some time. It might take several weeks to get completely accustomed to wearing it every night as side effects like excess saliva might be present during the first few nights. However, any foreign object worn over the mouth produces this kind of side effects and this generally tapers down after some time. Once your jaw muscles get used to it, you will find it more comfortable and less of a hassle.
If you are considering getting a stop snoring mouthpiece, it is best to seek the advice of a dentist as he can custom design one for you that can best suit your specific needs. However, this can be quite expensive. If you think your snoring is not yet on the verge of sleep apnea, the oral appliances that can be purchased online and on several health stores might be worth trying out. Who knows, this stop snoring mouthpiece might be the answer to achieving a restful and quiet night.
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Orthoclear: the Betamax of Transparent Tooth Straighteners?
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a format war was fought for control of the home video recorder market. Betamax, introduced by Sony, was the first commercially popular technology, and, in the early days, was a superior technology to the upstart VHS, developed by JVC. The Betamax tapes were smaller, allowing for a better camcorder technology, and they had higher video and audio quality. The main drawback to Betamax was the length of the tape, which at first was only 1 hour, compared to the 2-hour VHS tapes. With longer tapes and cheaper equipment, the VHS tape eventually won the market, despite the initial superiority of the Betamax technology.
Although Invisalign was the first clear aligner tray utilized for tooth straightening, several employees of the Align company that produced the system, broke away to develop a competing system: OrthoClear. Although many dentists regarded the OrthoClear system as superior, a lengthy legal battle led to the demise of OrthoClear and the dominance of the Invisalign brand.
Bad Blood
Align Technology was founded in 1997 by Zia Chishti and Kelsey Wirth, and received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market the Invisalign system the following year. Both founders left the company by 2003. Chishti then founded OrthoClear in 2005 to produce a competing design for utilizing clear plastic braces to align teeth.
However, the founding of OrthoClear was immediately accompanied by lawsuits from Align, which alleged patent infringement and illegal conduct by Chishti and others. In the complaint, Chishti is named as having met with patent lawyers, software engineers, and other employees in order to recruit them for his new enterprise, all in violation with codes of conduct and his contractual obligations, which he sought to avoid.
According to OrthoClear, the lawsuits filed by Align were meritless, since Chishti was the chief inventor named on the Invisalign patents. Align, they say, was a company that had lost 90 % of its original employees and had become a company without innovative ability to extend the scope of its practice, and that the people had left the company partly to escape from the profiteering attitude of the forces that had taken hold of the company.
A Superior Product?
During the short period of time that OrthoClear aligners were being produced, they developed an impressive reputation among dentists. Dentists cited the ability of OrthoClear systems to correct misalignments that Invisalign could not. Also, they said that although the Invisalign software was "slicker," the OrthoClear mouthpieces fit better. In addition, doctors pointed out that many times Invisalign treatments did not work as planned and patients were required to undergo additional treatments for as long as 6 months after the planned completion of treatment, whereas this was never the case for OrthoClear. In addition, the OrthoClear treatments were cheaper.
The Demise of OrthoClear
However, in the end, the legal battle would doom the new company. After fighting a lawsuit for its entire existence, the company agreed in September 2006 to close its doors and turn all its intellectual materials over to Align in exchange for $20 million.
Although the company producing the superior product was destroyed, the transfer of intellectual property back to Align meant that the older company could incorporate technological improvements into its design, resulting, hopefully, in an improved version of the Invisalign process.
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If you would like to learn about the most recent improvements in the Invisalign system, contact the Coleman Center for Cosmetic Dentistry in San Diego.
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