Sleep Apnoea Treatment

After a full night’s sleep, you should wake up refreshed and ready to take on the day. But many of your friends and neighbours have their rest interrupted by a serious medical condition known as sleep apnoea. This condition is quite common, with up to two in ten adults suffering from the condition. It is also more likely to impact you as you age – half of all sleep apnoea sufferers are over 50 years old.

One of the common symptoms of sleep apnoea is persistent snoring, which by itself is disruptive. But once you figure out the potential health risks of this condition, The Dentists @ Belmore team thinks that you’ll agree it’s best to treat it without delay.

What Causes Sleep Apnoea?

Though more than one kind of sleep apnoea exists, we treat the obstructive type of sleep apnoea. This condition appears when a physical constriction in your windpipe causes you to stop breathing for brief periods throughout the night. The constriction can be related to tissue at the back of your throat, your neck circumference, as well as your weight and age. In addition, you can aggravate it with alcohol use, smoking and certain medications.

Sleep Apnoea Signs and Symptoms

Sleep apnoea wears a person down over time. Lack of sleep on its own can interfere with life, but combine that with the following symptoms, and you can understand how significant its impacts are:

Sluggish or sleepiness during the daytime
Depression
Memory problems
Persistent headaches, especially in the morning
Frequent sleep interruptions
Floppy eye syndrome

Statistics show that nine out of ten cases of sleep apnoea go untreated, which is dangerous because so many negative health consequences are associated with it. Conditions like pulmonary disease, dementia, cancer, diabetes and even impotence can be traced back to sleep apnoea.

We Offer Unobtrusive Treatments

A common medical treatment for sleep apnoea is a CPAP (Continuous Positive Air Pressure) machine, which pushes your airway open with constant airflow. Unfortunately, these machines are loud, and many people dislike wearing a mask all night. Dr Ibrahim and Dr Muhannad are happy to offer an alternative to CPAP treatment for certain patients.

Mandibular Advancement Splints (MAS) are oral appliances custom designed to hold your airways open as you sleep. Your MAS will fit snugly and comfortably, and with minimal intrusion, you can breathe adequately, stop snoring, and get a great night’s sleep.

We Provide Sleep Apnoea Treatment in Belmore

For people in Sydney who are tired of being tired in the morning, our team is ready to help. Contact the Dentists @ Belmore if you have the signs of sleep apnoea. We encourage you to take that first step towards restoring your sleep health and, by extension, your overall well-being. If you have any questions, we invite you to contact us today.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is your cancellation policy?

Here at The Dentists @ Belmore, we try our best to respect your time and we expect our patients to do the same. Arriving late (more than 15 minutes), short notice cancellations and failure to attend leads to disruptions to our patients and staff.

As a small privately-owned dental practice, we are financially strained when patients miss appointments. We are not a large corporation and we do not treat our patients as numbers.

We like to give our patients the full scope of our knowledge and care, and we like each patient experience to be personalised, as dental care should be. We aim to provide you with an exceptional service at an affordable cost. Chair time lost to no shows or short notice cancellations impacts our ability to run our small business.

It is in ours and our patients’ best interest that we keep lost chair time to a minimum.

We ask our patients to give at least 24 hour notice before cancellation or rescheduling. It is very difficult to fill in these appointments, so please let us know well ahead of time if you need to reschedule.

Holding your appointment time means turning away other patients in urgent need of dental care. Therefore, any missed or short notice cancellations will attract a cancellation fee of $50.

Our cancellation policy is as follows:

Our patients are required to pay a $50 holding fee to secure their appointment.
The holding fee will be taken off the final cost of your appointment.
Cancelling an appointment with more than 24 hour notice is absolutely fine. We can accommodate for this.
Failing to attend, rescheduling, or cancelling an appointment with less than 24 hours notice leads to a $50 cancellation fee, which means forfeiting the $50 holding deposit.
If you wish to re-book after cancelling within 24 hours, you will be required to pay another $50 holding fee.
We always send out an SMS reminder or we call our patients well in advance to confirm the appointment.
We reserve the right to ask for the cost of treatment upfront before making another appointment. This is a last resort option only if there is a recurring cancellation pattern.
New patients who fail to attend or cancel with less than 24 hours notice on two consecutive occasions will not be rebooked.

For long appointments such as whitening or root canals, we will require a deposit at the time of booking.

Meet Our Doctor:

Dr Ibrahim Al-Salti Principal Dentist & Owner
BDent (Hons) | BPharm (Hons)

Dr Ibrahim is the principal dentist at The Dentists @ Belmore. He is a graduate of The University of Sydney Schools of Dentistry and Pharmacy.

Since graduation, Dr Ibrahim held different positions across NSW in both metropolitan and rural settings. During that time, he also undertook extensive further training both locally and abroad in locations spanning the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Dr Ibrahim still keeps up with the latest in research and treatments to offer his patients leading care.

When it comes to patient care Dr Ibrahim believes in ...