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The Moses™ Appliance
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The Moses™ Appliance
THE MOSES™ APPLIANCE
The Moses™ appliance is properly categorized as an open-anterior oral airway dilator. The Moses™ is an acrylic appliance that is worn in the mouth at night to treat obstructive sleep apnea, hypopnea and snoring and is FDA approved. It is custom-fitted and laboratory fabricated.
The Moses™ appliance works in the following ways:
• Supports the lower jaw in a forward position of low muscle activity and it
prevents collapse of the tongue on the pharynx
• Increases volume of space for the tongue in the mouth
• Dilates pharyngeal muscles, lifts the drooping soft palate
• Raises the position of the hyoid bone relative to cranial base
• Lowers elevator muscle activity, reduces clenching, decreases or prevents
bruxism
Additional, advantages of The Moses™ appliance:
• Activates tongue protruding reflexes resulting in tongue advancement
• Elevates tongue to the hard palate and increases nasal air flow
• Allows lip seal
• Corrects dysphagia
• Comfortable and adjustable
The Moses™ appliance works in the following ways:
• Supports the lower jaw in a forward position of low muscle activity and it
prevents collapse of the tongue on the pharynx
• Increases volume of space for the tongue in the mouth
• Dilates pharyngeal muscles, lifts the drooping soft palate
• Raises the position of the hyoid bone relative to cranial base
• Lowers elevator muscle activity, reduces clenching, decreases or prevents
bruxism
Additional, advantages of The Moses™ appliance:
• Activates tongue protruding reflexes resulting in tongue advancement
• Elevates tongue to the hard palate and increases nasal air flow
• Allows lip seal
• Corrects dysphagia
• Comfortable and adjustable
