Better Sleep for Better Health

Magnolia Sleep Solutions treats sleep apnea and chronic snoring with a comfortable and easy to use oral device. Our treatments are tailored to each patient specifically. Dr. Stephanie Babin and her team’s main focus is your comfort and increased quality of sleep and life.

What is Sleep Apnea?

Sleep Apnea is a serious sleep disorder that occurs when a person has interrupted breathing during sleep. This can happen as many as 20-30 times per hour, sometimes hundreds of times during the night. When you stop breathing in your sleep, your brain is alerted by the lack of oxygen, which will temporarily wake you to restart proper breathing. Most people do not remember it because the time spent awake is so brief. Thus, many people that suffer with sleep apnea believe they are getting a good night’s rest, when in fact, they are not. The constant drowsy feeling during the day is caused by the wake-sleep, wake-sleep cycle, preventing those with sleep apnea from achieving deep sleep.

Normal Breathing

During sleep, air can travel freely to and from your lungs through your airways.

Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

Your airway collapses, stopping air from traveling freely to and from your lungs and disturbing your sleep.

Different Types of Sleep Apnea

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)

This is the most common and occurs when the upper airway is physically blocked either partially or completely during sleep. Usually the soft tissue in the back of the throat collapses causing the blockage. This will cause an apnea episode where the diaphragm and chest muscles work harder as the pressure increases to open the airway. Breathing usually resumes with a loud gasp or body jerk. These episodes can interfere with sound sleep, reduce the flow of oxygen to vital organs, and cause heart rhythm problems.

Central Sleep Apnea (CSA)

With central sleep apnea, the airway is not blocked but the brain fails to signal the muscles to breathe due to instability in the respiratory control center. Central sleep apnea is less common and is related to the function of the central nervous system.

Mixed Sleep Apnea

A combination of both obstructive and central sleep apnea.