ZQuiet Reviews, Compare to Snorefighter, Puresleep


Most Effective Oral Anti Snoring Mouthpieces in the Market:
Brand Name	Description and Charicteristics	Money Back Guaranteed	Cost
Brand Name	Description and Charicteristics	Money Back Guaranteed	Unit Price	Shipping	Total
Kudo Snorefighter	Kudo Snorefighter is made of non-toxic, hypoallergenic and hygiene certified material. It has been tested and certified for compliance with FDA 21 CFR 177.2600 for safe use	60 Day Money Back Guranteed	$39.95	$6.00	$45.95

	It is shaped and dimensioned for ergomatic comfortable fit within the mouth of a user to reduce or eliminate snoring.
Figure Above: New Item Kudo Snorefighter Figure Below: Post Custom Fit	A single piece of the U-Shped thermal plastic mouthpiece has a bilateral rearward dental area and a frontal dental area with integrated outer and inner vertical walls projecting upwardly and downwardly from the base to form channels for seating maxillary (upper) and mandibular (lower) teeth, respectively.
	After custom molded fit, the upper and lower channels reposition and retain the the user's jaw (mandible) slightly forward to open air passage to reduce or inhibit snoring or sleep apnea during sleep.
	The single piece design offers great advantage of reliability and durability. It also saves weight and volume to make the mouthpiece last longer and lighter and maximize comfort
PureSleep	PureSleep is an adjustable oral device for placement within the mouth of a user similarly to reduce or eliminate snoring.	30 Day Money Back	$59.90	$9.95	$69.85
	The Pure Sleep comprises an upper member and a lower member having upwardly and downwardly oriented channels to receive the upper and lower teeth of a uses, respectively.
	Similar to Kudo Snorefighter, a custom fit Puresleep uses the upper and lower channels to bias the jaw relatively forward to reduce or eliminate snoring
Due to the nature of Puresleep two pieces design, the joints of upper and lower members may not as strong as a single piece one, such as Kudo Snorefighter, PureSleep's reliability and duribility are questionable. Feedbacks and comments on Puresleep from users are welcome
Zquiet	Zquiet is an intra oral snoring device, similar to Kudo Snorefighter, for repositioning the users' jaw forward to open oral and pharyngeal passgeway and preventing snoring.	30 Day Money Back	$59.95	$9.95	$69.90
		30 Day Money Back	$59.95	$9.95	$69.90
	Zquiet is two U-shaped plate members jointed to form a so called "living hinge". The upper and lower plate members engage some of maxillary (upper) and mandibular (lower) teeth respectively and connect to "living hinge" to allow some degree of mouth openning during sleep.
Zquiet does not require custom fit molding which is different with Kudo snorefighter and PureSleep
Due to no custom fit process, Zquiet may cause some level of teeth discomfort and fatigue. It also may damage the gum, lips and other delicated structures of maxillary and mandible. Feedbacks and comments are helpful for the snoring communities.
Sleep Disorder Centers	The custom fitted anti snoring devices are also available to public at sleep disorder centers and by dentists.		$300 - $1,800		$300 - $1,800
But the cost of $300- $1,800 and time associated with doctor's visit and being fitted for the custom made appliances may not be affordable for most users.
Other Anti Snoring Devices


					What you need to know about ZQuiet?

		Snoring Devices Reviews:			Can ZQuiet stop snoring?
		ZQuiet Reviews by Users Snorefighter Reviews by Users Puresleep Reviews Puresleep blog More Useful Links:			Based on my 16+ years study on snoring, yes, ZQuiet does stop snoring for most of people. Because it uses the same theory as others, such as Snorefighter and Puresleep, which lift your jaw up or forward to open up breathing areas in your throat by a mouthpiece to allow you freely breathe. This theory has been proven by clinic study in the past 30 years. Some sleep specialists and dentists, in my local area, Dr. Richard M. Shoup and Dr. Larry Z. Lockerman ( I will talk about them separately), developed a mouth appliance to help the sleep apnea patients and snorers. I just called Dr. Freeman's office other day, this device will cost you $1,800 from dentist office along, does not include sleep specialist’s office visit. As you can see from the table above, the Zquiet, Snorefighter and Puresleep offer significant savings.
					What are the differences between a dentist made oral appliance and ZQuiet?
					Dentist charges you $1,800 because other than multiple office visits, they will provide you a custom-fit dental mouthpiece, which will perfectly fit with your teeth so no discomfort, no teeth pain, no foreign objective feeling in your mouth. Moreover, the forward extension of your jaw is adjustable by spacers (I will provide some photo illustrations later). What does this mean to you? First night you wear this device, and next morning your honey tells you it does not work. What do you do? The doctor tells you add a spacer (about 0.050" thick) to extend your jaw forward further and try another night. Your wife may tell you that you still snore but quieter. This is a good sign which means the device likely will work for you. So what is next? Add another spacer? Absolutely. Please be aware that there is a limitation on how much your jaw can extend forward, just like how wide your mouth can open. If you watched ABC's "Dancing With Stars", the third place Ricki Lake's dancing partner, Derek Hough, suddenly could not close his mouth after a happy moment of excellent performance. Because he opened his mouth too wide and the joint was out of the position. This joint called TMJ. I will talk about the TMJ later.
					CUSTOM-FIT
					ZQuiet claims the device is ready to use, no custom-fit, no adjustment. Just simply open the box, close your eyes, consider it is a Christmas gift from your lovely wife (or husband), put it in your mouth and go to bed, then wish a wonderful dream and good night sleep. This likely will be true for your wife (or husband) since ZQuiet will likely stop your snoring, for the first time of many years, she (or he) may not know your exist for that night. But in the morning, very likely you will experience a teeth sore, or possible untouchable teeth pain. Why? very simple, no one's teeth is exactly same as others, one size of shoe does not fit to all. How can you imagine one size of ZQuiet mouthpiece can fit to everyone's mouth without teeth pain? The Figure 1 below shows what is happening when your teeth fits to ZQuiet mouthpiece or similar type, such as Snoremender.Left is typical upper and lower teeth colored for clarity. For illustration purpose, the middle is the flattened ZQuiet mouthpiece. The upper teeth will fit into the upper half of the mouthpiece, the lower half is for lower teeth. As you can see from the right, unless your teeth is perfectly shaped same as the mouthpiece, otherwise there will be some gap between your teeth and the mouthpiece. Everybody talks about moving your lower jaw forward to stop snoring, this is easy when you are awake, but when you fall in sleep at night, all of your muscles relax including the muscles holding your lower jaw and tongue (you probably already know why you snore. just because of the relaxation of muscles, the tongue could fall back and block your breathing which causes snore or sleep apnea. I will write separate article to talk about snore and jaw movement). The ZQuiet will serve as your muscle to hold your jaw forward, simply like a "clothe hanger" in your closet to hang your lower jaw on your upper front teeth. The weight of your jaw and tongue partially anchored to your lower teeth and hang on to your upper front teeth. Both of your upper and lower teeth are loaded by the mouthpiece. But the dentist's appliance does the same thing, why no teeth pain? The difference is the custom-fit. The custom fit oral appliance evenly distributes the load or pressure to each of your front teeth, not a point, the entire tooth surface. The "ready to use" or non-custom fit mouthpiece will only have few contact points with your teeth as seen on the right below, the concentrated pressure on the teeth obviously will cause teeth pain. The zoom in illustration clearly shows which tooth is loaded


					Yes, your wife (or husband) will no longer to hear your snoring, but you will no longer to have your breakfast. you may pay the price on pain instead of money. Here is the list of snoring devices ready to use and not require a custom fit to your teeth: ZQuiet, Snoremender Here is the list of snoring devices require custom fit: Snorefighter, Puresleep, Ripsnore, Please let me know if you find anything else.
					ADJUSTABILITY.
					Your teeth is different with others not only on the size and shape, but also the position of jaw relative to upper teeth. This difference could make you be a overbite, underbite teeth. Idea teeth is a slight overbite, the upper teeth slightly covers the lower teeth all around. If you have a idea teeth, the likelihood ZQuiet will work for you. ZQuiet has a fixed extension designed for idea teeth. For people with excessive overbite, the fixed extension may cause your TMJ pain. The pain occurs at lower front of your ears. This simply because a fixed extension may be too much for your TMJ. For people with underbite, the ZQuiet may not work at all because the fixed extension will not move your jaw forward due to underbite. I will draw some sketches later so you can easily understand.
					Is the ZQuiet right for you? (coming soon)
					Do I recommend ZQuiet? (coming soon)
					Contact information if you need to return (coming soon)


		1. Oral Anti Snoring Devices (oral snoring mouthpiece)
			For snorer with mild or moderate obstructive sleep apnea, American Academy of Family Physiciansrecommends to use oral anti snoring device to stop snoring or improve the symptoms. An oral anti snoring device (oral anti snoring mouthpiece or formally so called mandibular repositioning appliance (MRA)) modifies the upper airway by lifts the lower jaw (mandible) and tongue.
			Doctor Peter A. Cistulli and his research team from University of New South Wales released their long-term study report Treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea with mandibular repositioning appliances on Sleep Medicine Review on 2004. It concluded that the oral anti snoring devices have been rigorously proven that they improve and often eliminate snoring in a large population of snorers with various severity of snoring.
			Dr. Hoffstein V. from Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital conducted a research by using AHI (Apnea and Hypopnea Index. AHI is defined as how many apnea and hypopnea occur per sleep hour, and is calculated by dividing the numbers of hypopnea and apnea by number of sleep hours) to evaluate the affectivity of oral anti snore devices. By reviewing the clinical snoring study involving a total of 3,027 snoring patient, he found that the clinical effects of oral anti snoring devices are remarkably consistent.
			The rate of the ability of oral anti snoring devices to reduce the AHI to below 10 (10 apneas or hypopneas per hour is not considered clinically significant) is 54%. He also compared the oral anti snoring devices with other treatments such as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP machines) and surgery for long-term effects. His study indicated that oral anti snore devices improve initial AHI by 43%, CPAP by 74% and uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) surgery reduced it by 31%.
			Follow up data shows the majority of patient prefer using oral anti snore devices than CPAP machines and 2/3 of patients continue to use oral anti snore devices after at least two years.
			Dr. Schmidt-Nowara W and his team from Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico focused on the side effects of the oral stop snoring devices.
			The research data indicates that most common side effect is oral discomfort, hypersalivation (increased salivation) or xerostomia (dry mouth) but tolerable. Occasional occlusal side effects normally do not bother patients much. Consideration of the risks and benefits of oral stop snoring devices treatment with the other therapies suggests that oral stop snoring devices present a useful alternative to CPAP, especially for patients with moderate snoring and cannot tolerate CPAP therapy.
			Kudo Snoring Research concluded that the use of oral anti snoring devices should be a first choice treatment for mild to moderate snoring, Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Hypopnea Syndrome (OSAH)


		2. Weight Control
			The studies have shown that lose weight is the most fundamental treatment for snoring, even just a few pounds could significantly improve the snoring symptoms and effectively control the snoring.


		3. Sleep On Your Side
			Sleep On Your Side is better than on your back. When sleep on your back it is pretty easy to understand that the soft tissues attached to your tongue and soft palate could fall into your throat by gravity to narrow or block your breath airway and results a snoring


		4. Quit Smoke
			The study appeares in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicineunveils that upper airway could be irritated and inflamed by smoking to narrow the airway, also withdrawal of nicotine overnight could relax the muscle for tongue and throat to allow the soft tissues obstruct breath airway to cause snoring.


		5. Avoid Alcohol Before Bedtime
			Similar to sleep pills, alcohol relaxes the muscles and allows the soft tissues to obstruct breath airway and lead to a snoring.


		6. Daily Practice on Deep Breathes
			To exercise the muscles near the upper airway and strengthen the breath signals from brain.


		7. Smiling
			To exercise the muscles around tongue and maintain their strength during sleep.


		8. Singing
			Recent study by Fellow Alise Ojayfrom University of Exeter, UK showed that singing exercises could improve snoring symptoms by restoring muscle's strength near the throat.


		9. Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)
			If above approaches fail or not significantly improving the snoring symptoms, CPAP could be a very good choice for treatment of sleep apnea. A pneumatic machine pumps a continuous positive pressure to a nasal mask, which gently blow the air into your throat to keep the airway open. The use of CPAP machine may be covered by insurance or Medicare if meet certain criteria per Medicare coverage Issues Manual from Department of Health and Human Services.


		10. Snoring Surgery
			If snoring is very severe and not responding to all other possible treatments, doctors may recommend to have surgery to remove the soft tissues in the throat to open the airway.


			The above 10 effective ways on "how to stop snoring" can be used individually or as combination.


		Snoring Is a Common Sleep Disorder
		Believe or not, snoring is a very common sleep disorder affecting especially men over 40 years old. 86% of men, and 60% of women snore occasionally, while 44% of men, 28% of women snore every single night.
		Usually, the person who snores does not know his snoring during his sleep, but the bed partner or family members could be disrupted and can't sleep well.
		The most recent research from Mayo Clinic showed the snoring could reduce the bed partner's sleep time for more than one hour every night.
		More evidences indicated that long term lack of sleep could results of acceleration of aging, increase of stress hormones, and even induce depression.
		If you find your bed partner is a habitual snorer, please do not ignore it, medical assistance is needed to get a good sleep for both snorer and bed partner.
		For how to stop snoring, please see 10 effective ways to stop snoring.


		The Sleep Apnea and Health Risk
		For both men and women, snoring is an indication of chance for sleep apnea, the louder of snoring, the more chance of sleep apnea.
		Sleep apnea normally follows a loud snoring, then a deadly silence. This is because the airway is completely blocked by the soft tissues, no air through, although the lung is trying to inhale.
		As respiration ceases, the level of oxygen in the blood drops, after 10 seconds to up to 2 minute’s silence, eventually the low levels of oxygen partially wakes the brain to send a message to lift the soft tissues in the throat and reopen the airway to breath.
		If respiration ceases 5 times or more per hour, it can be considered as sleep apnea. The effects of sleep apnea are poor sleep quality, morning headache, excessive daytime sleepiness, loss of concentrations.
		Further more, A report from American Stroke Associationindicates poor oxygenation in blood could cause hypoxia (low levels of oxygen) which in turn results high blood pressure, stroke and heart attack.
		The worst thing is that 80% of people suffering from sleep apnea does not know their problem. Estimated 12 million Americans are suffering from the disease.
		American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine reported that one of 30 drivers could fall sleep while driving, most of them are either overweighed, snoring, daytime sleepiness, insomnia, high blood pressure, or suffering from sleep apnea.
		If your bed partner is snoring night in and night out, and daytime sleepiness, for the sick of health for both of you, see doctor sooner is better.

					How To Stop Snoring?

					Sleep positions and physiological changes with age could narrow the breath airway and lead to snoring. How can I stop snoring? Here are 10 effective ways to keep you away from snoring.
					Oral Anti Snoring Devices
					Weight Control
					Sleep On Your Side
					Quit Smoke
					Avoid Alcohol Before Bed Time
					Daily Practice on Deep Breathes
					Smiling
					Singing
					Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)
					Snoring Surgery
					Snoring Is a Common Sleep Disorder
					The Causes of Snoring
					The Sleep Apnea and Health Risk