Dr. Paul Hoff

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257 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta · When Snoring Becomes a Danger to Your Health · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, yeah.

And for those people who don't tolerate CPAP, there are other conservative non-surgical treatments, sometimes positional therapy.

So some people have terrible sleep apnea on their back, you lay them on their side, and their sleep apnea goes away.

And so there are devices like different kind of like wedges you can sleep with, or there's some devices that are they actually kind of

vibrate if you start to roll onto your back, sort of train you to sleep on your side.

The old tennis ball technique where you sew a tennis ball into your nightshirt, that's not the greatest, but that's the concept as if it just makes it uncomfortable to roll onto your back.

So that's a conservative, non-surgical thing.

And it's very effective, more for mild to moderate sleep apnea.

And you might have heard of oral appliances.

It's like a mouth guard.

People use bite blocks or for bite splints, you know, for grinding their teeth.

But this is one that would kind of bring your jaw forward, which brings your tongue forward, opens the airway.

And if you do that at night, you know, that's that solves the problem for people with mild to moderate.

And so that's a good option for people.

And then after that, you start talking about surgical treatments for those who really need it.

Well, you know, about 50% of those are going to be like mild sleep apnea.

So the other, you know, 50% is maybe 30% moderate.

And then, you know, their 20% are going to be severe sleep apnea.

And so it's that population that needs, you know, significant treatment.

An important thing to know about CPAP and oral appliances is

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