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Where are you getting an oral appliance?

My sleep specialist doctor prescribed it. They had to do a scan of my mouth and after 3 weeks I got the mouthpiece in the mail.

how do you like it? Any issues with jaw pain or change in your bite? Also did your insurance cover it? I heard they are similarly priced as CPAPs.

There are options on amazon for under $80 if you just want to try it and see if it helps.

...where? Do I just type "cpap mouth appliance"? Because that only seems to show me 15€ chinese crap with 2 stars out of 5.

They’re usually called “snore guards” or something like that. You boil them in water for five minutes and bite on them to mould them to your teeth.

I have one, it works alright. It lives in my backpack for when I forget to pack my prescribed oral appliance.

https://www.snorerx.com/snorerx-plus/

How confident are you that those devices don't contain toxic chemicals or radioactive material?

Odd.

It was a serious question. Amazon sells some really nasty, toxic products outside of established brand names.

> Some of the samples tested by the Zero Mercury Working Group contained as much as 65,000 ppm of mercury – an astounding 65,000 times the legal limit of 1 ppm set by the Food and Drug Administration.

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2022/03/dange...

> Amazon Japan K.K. and the two companies in Gifu and Saitama prefectures sold key chains and compasses containing tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, without reporting it to the NRA, in violation of the radiation hazard prevention law, the NRA said.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/business/nuclea...

If you are actually seriously considering one of these devices I think you can research that yourself. Asking me "how confident" I am smells like trolling.

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