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Diane B Read Transcript

Diane B

Dr. Ross is just a great dentist, and I like that he's always looking forward, and having access to things that most people don't look for in a dentist, and that he is willing to do a sleep apnea appliance for clients, as an option, is just a relief.

I was hoping that it would work, because I really did not want a CPAP machine. Both my sisters have that, and I don't like to be tied up to a machine, so this lets me just have an appliance like a retainer, that I can put in my mouth. Takes a couple nights to get used to, but after that you're all good, and you don't want to leave home without it.

He has helped me by reducing my pain in my jaw, and my head, and my shoulders, and he ... I get a good night sleep now, and I don't need a nap in the afternoon, and I'm not hearing from my husband, "Breathe. Breathe." In the middle of the night, he was waking me up, because I wasn't breathing, and I don't get that anymore.

I would definitely say do it. Visit Dr. Ross. He is on the cutting edge of everything out there. He's a great dentist. He takes the time to talk to you, and really listen to you, and he gets it until it's done, until it's perfect.

Sean C. Read Transcript

Sean C.

My wife, I think it's probably a common occurrence, was the first one to kind of notice it. She said, "Hey, you know, you've been snoring a lot lately," and I never had been a traditional snorer, so to speak. She pointed out, she said, "Yeah, you know, there's times where you seem like you stop breathing for a little while during that." That's kind of what led me to explore it a little further, as far as if I should be looking for some sort of treatment.

I was fortunate enough that Dr. Ross brought this up, and said that it was something that you can treat in a different way than I had heard of in the past, because I had had some friends, years ago, who had ... We were on a vacation, at a golf trip or something, and he had one of those CPAP machines, and you got to kind of lug it around, and it's kind of loud at night, and so it was nice to know that they do have some alternatives, now. There's no harm to trying it, in my mind, and if it didn't do the trick, and I had to do something more extreme, with like a CPAP machine or whatever, then so be it, but I was fortunate enough that this, in fact, worked for me.

My wife tells me that I am not snoring near as much, if at all, and I think I'm probably sleeping a little better than I have before, too, so I would guess, in that regards, maybe I have a little more energy now, and the most important thing is that I'm not stopping my breathing in the middle of the night, for 45 seconds, or some longer-than-normal period of time.

Carol B Read Transcript

Carol B

My doctor wanted me to go and have a sleep test where you go and you spend the night, and I had told him that I would never be able to wear one of those. I didn't not want the CPAP, because I'm extremely claustrophobic. That stems from me being caught in an elevator when I was younger. Even people mentioning that CPAP would give me anxiety. So I talked to my sister, and she said she has the same problem, and she showed me the mouth guard that she'd gotten from her dentist and that she was using it, and her husband said she never snored anymore. So I said well when I get home, I am going to ask Dr. Ross about it, and unbeknownst to me, he has a program here. It's explained extremely well. They answer any questions, and it just was an easy process. They just made it so easy and understandable and explained the whole test, and I do not wake up with dry mouth anymore. I don't wake up gasping for breath, and I overall just have a better night's sleep.

Laura H Read Transcript

Laura H

When somebody doesn't have good sleep, it really reaches into every part of your life, and my husband is one of those individuals that really, really needs his sleep and doesn't function well, and when his sleep was interrupted, it was affecting him at work, it was affecting his mood, which affected our whole household. He was hitting that three o'clock slump really badly at work, because he just wasn't getting enough rest at night. He was very excited to hear about the treatment from Dr. Ross, because Dr. Ross had experienced the same difficulties and was finding success, and shared his experience with my husband, and my husband was very excited to know that there was finally something that would help the struggles that he was having that didn't involve any medication, or anything of that sort.

It was a little bit of a ramp-up at the beginning, getting used to it and coming back for adjustments, and Dr. Ross has been very attentive with adjustments that my husband's required in getting it set just right, so that it was working well for him. Now that he's sleeping through the night, guess what? I'm sleeping through the night. I'm not waking up at two o'clock and three o'clock in the morning, so we're both waking up feeling much better. It took time. Every night, it was a few more hours, a few more hours, and then he was able to wear it through the night, he got used to it, and the stretches of sleep got longer, and for the most part, he's pretty much sleeping through the night now, and it's ... Everything is a lot better for both of us. We both feel better, we both feel more energetic, and we both feel more rested.

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