Health Medical Information

Review by Jeff Freeman for Experian® Stop Snoring Mouth Piece – Anti Snore Device Solution Aid Cure – Oral Appliance Aid 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Rating:
I haven’t tried this exact product yet, but due to a snafu this year with my “flexible spending account,” I did end up with $1200 I was going to lose, so I sprung for a “professional” anti-snoring appliance. The “pro” ones consist of two hard plastic “tooth pieces” molded respectively to fit your upper and lower teeth and a pair of rubber straps that connect the two pieces. Your dentist creates soft reverse molds of your upper and lower teeth and sends them to a technician, who creates plaster molds of the upper and lower teeth and then creates reverse molds (again) out of hard-ish plastic. These reverse molds snap (at least in my case) *very* firmly onto your teeth. The rubber straps come in different strengths. The object of the appliance is to hold your jaw open and forward to whatever extent is comfortable, safe, and required to keep your soft palate from flapping in your respiratory breeze. Most of you will already know this much, but you might not know this other stuff….

The “pro” appliances could, I imagine, be pretty comfortable if they are done precisely and carefully, but my sense is that most US dental offices don’t do this much because at present most insurance plans don’t cover them and most people won’t pay over a grand for something that might or might not work. Thus, I think a lack of practice might contribute to a shortfall in the kind of virtuosity you see with crowns and other common appliances. Mine is still being fitted by the dentist who worked with me it, but it’s pretty uncomfortable, is a struggle to get off my teeth and out of my mouth in the morning, and it actually causes my teeth to move around (or, strictly, I suppose you could say it prevents my teeth from moving around–same net effect–they are not where they want to be). When I wear it, my teeth don’t mate with each other for a few hours the next morning, and especially my bottom teeth feel odd for up to two days. Time will tell whether this can be remedied without a total rework, but my third return visit is scheduled for next week, and of course each visit costs me a couple of hours of hassle, travel, and missed work.

I mention all of this to suggest three things. First, that spending $20-40 on a short-term custom solution like this one could be done quite a large number of times before approaching the prices of a “pro” device, so I recommend that you not be daunted by “wasting” a hundred bucks or so figuring out the right boil time, tooth position, jaw position, etc. Second, the short-term solution, it would seem, might give you a better shot at long term dental health because your teeth are able to reset their alternate anti-snoring position every few months when you replace and re-mold. And, Third: if you are, as I am, a person whose snoring is reduced or eliminated by the use of such a device, it’s really quite nice to be able to e.g. wake without a headache, spend the whole night in bed with your significant other, etc—so, again, if you “waste” a hundred bucks experimenting, I think that’s well worth the money.

Hope this non-review helps some of you. On the strengths of the positive reviews I see here and the cost and complexity of the weaknesses of the “pro” model, this seems like it’s worth taking a run at before you jump into anything more expensive.

Review by Christina Jacobs for Experian® Stop Snoring Mouth Piece – Anti Snore Device Solution Aid Cure – Oral Appliance Aid 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Rating:
I was quite skeptical after being let down by so many other products costing hundreds of dollars. Who would of thought something so inexpensive would be the solution. I now sleep soundlessly through the night. Be prepared for a break in period of a couple of nights. It takes getting used to sleeping with a mouth piece in your mouth. Additionally I felt some jaw stiffness the first couple of mornings. With continued use, these issues have disappeared. I wake up in the morning feeling more refreshed than ever.