Dr. Michael Grandner
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Again, there's no equipment to replace, but you do need surgery for it.
And there's complications there sometimes, but seems to work OK.
There's more options now than ever.
And the technology is always getting better.
Even with CPAP, there's more than 200 different kinds of masks out there.
So for people who don't like their device and don't like their mask because it's uncomfortable or whatever, it's rare that I find a mask problem that can't be fixed.
If what you need is one of those.
Mouth taping.
So, all right.
Mouth taping.
So mouth taping for decades in the sleep medicine field, we've been using chin straps, just like an elastic band at night for people who are snoring that don't that where it's just mild snoring and they don't have sleep apnea.
Or their sleep apnea is mild, or their sleep apnea is due to them opening their mouth at night and their tongue falling back, and they can breathe through their nose okay.
Chin straps have been great.
They've been, again, used for decades.
Mouth taping, I think, is just sort of the same thing, where you're essentially just keeping your mouth closed.
You're just keeping your mouth closed in a way that you can breathe through.
It's special tape where air flows through fine.
If the problem is that you're opening your mouth,
I have no problem with it.
And it probably, it may help those people.