Another Victim of Sleep Apnea – Your Memory

Are you famous for misplacing your keys? Forgetting birthdays? Do you struggle to remember names or even the emails you read the day before? How are you sleeping these days? If you suspect that you have sleep apnea, it just might be stealing your memory!

Every single moment of your waking day, stimuli is pours into your mind. At night, your sleeping mind catalogues and consolidates these memories, essentially anchoring the more important ones in your mind so you can remember them in the morning.

If you have sleep apnea, you could be waking up hundreds of times a night and never entering into the important REM and slow-wave sleep cycles that are necessary for filtering and consolidating memories.

So if you’d rather not spend half your life searching for your keys, do something about it now. See a sleep specialist. Consult your dentist for a recommendation for a custom sleep appliance -- manufactured just for you by a sleep appliance dental lab like SML. 

The Zyppah-K is a lightweight, non-invasive, vacuum-form appliance that consists of two sturdy acrylic arch trays formed to fit tightly over the teeth. 

The device advances the lower jaw – holding it forward to maintain an open airway - while the custom Green Zyppah Tongue Band stabilizes the tongue and keeps it from obstructing the breathing passage.  The elastics can be switched out within a range of incremental sizes to ensure the best individual fit and function for each patient.