31 Jan Dr. Erika Mason Partners with Your Health Care Providers to Help you Sleep Better, Breathe Better, and Improve Your Overall Health
Do you wake up with a heachache? Do you snore or have recently started to snore? These might be symptoms of untreated obstructive sleep apnea. Dr. Erika Mason and her staff are part of your healthcare team to help you sleep better, breathe better and improve your overall health. For this reason, Dr. Erika Mason partners with her local ENTs, primary care physicians, sleep medicine physicians, dentists and pulmonologists to access your overall health and to see if you are a candidate for oral appliance therapy to treat your obstructive sleep apnea.
Dr. Erika Mason also recommends a simple, non-invasive procedure called VivAer for those candidates who have anatomical narrowing or blockage of their nasal airway. If you have trouble breathing through your nose, you might be suffering from undiagnosed condition called nasal airway obstruction or NAO.
What are common symptoms of NAO:
- Trouble breathing through the nose or a “blocked” feeling
- Nasal congestion
- Difficulty sleeping, leading to fatigue
- Struggling to breathe through the nose during exercise
- Frequent “mouth breathing”
The benefits of the VivAer procedure:
- Non-invasive, no incisions
- Typically done in you doctor’s office under local anesthesia
- Minimal to no downtime after treatment
- Long-lasting results proven in a multi-center clinical study
Untreated sleep apnea can lead to a host of poor health outcomes such as high blood pressure, stroke, A-Fib, diabetes, high cholesterol, lack of oxygenation, depression, anxiety, glaucoma or increasedpressure due to lack of oxygen to the optic nerve and retina, and dry mouth to name a few.
Let us help you sleep and breathe better and improve your overall health. Oral appliance therapy is a great choice versus the CPAP machine. Easy to wear and pack on your next adventure.
To learn more about the VivAer procedure, please visit www.VivAer.com.