Snoring appliances are intended to help prevent the major cause of snoring: restricted air flow causing vibration of your throat tissues. When your airway narrows or become restricted, the soft tissue in your throat can begin to vibrate. This produces what we all know to be snoring.

The first group of snoring appliances attempt to keep your air passages free flowing.

Anti-snoring pillow. When your head and neck are positioned incorrectly you can experience some stretching and thus narrowing of the throat, restricting your airway. This encourages you to open your mouth in an attempt to breathe more freely.

The anti-snoring pillow is intended to keep your head positioned in the optimal way to keep your airway free and open. This reduces the likelihood of you breathing through your mouth.

Tongue stabilizer. This is a device that resides mostly outside your mouth with lips into which you push your tongue. Your tongue is held in place by suction. This keeps the back of your tongue away from the air pathway and keeps your jaw from sliding backward further restricting the air pathways. Both these results allow you to breathe easier without snoring.

Jaw position support. These appliances that work to hold the jaw in place, preventing it from slipping back to restrict the air flow. The simplest such device is an elastic band you wear around your head that passes under your jaw. It helps keep your mouth closed with the jaw in its proper location to prevent it from moving backward to cut off your air pathway.

More complex dental appliances are fitted to your individual mouth. They typically fit over your teeth, allowing you to open your mouth while keeping your jaw from slipping back, ensuring an open air path. These are customer made to fit your individual mouth and, while effective, are more costly.

Nasal strips and dilators. Both these snoring devices expand the nostrils to allow air to flow through the nose easily.

Nasal strips are typically springy plastic strips with adhesive at the ends. Just as you place the nasal strip over your nose you remove the coverings over the adhesive ends and press the adhesive ends on your nose. The springy nasal strip pulls open your nostrils to provide an expanded pathway for air.

The Nasal dilators typically also use a springy plastic. The nasal dilator is bent over and inserted into your nose. One end of the nasal dilator goes in one nostril and the other end go into the other nostril. Since ti nasal dilator is springy, it functions by pressing outward, opening up your pathway for easy air flow.

These next snoring appliances attempt to train you to avoid sleeping on your back. Sleeping on your back is an easy way for your jaw to move backward restricting your air pathway. Eliminating sleeping on your back helps keep you from snoring.

Snore ball. This is an irritant that is sown on the back of your pajama tops, usually on the inside. There are items you can purchase, but many people simply put a golf ball or tennis ball is a sock and sow it to the pajama top. It’s meant to cause irritation and prevent you from sleeping on your back.

Sleep position monitor. This is an electronic device that detects your sleep position. When you turn to sleep on your back, the monitor emits a beep to alert you to roll over. This can be the most annoying choice for anyone who sleeps with you.

These are the major devices you can use to help prevent snoring. Reducing your snoring will allow you to sleep more soundly and will quit annoying anyone who sleeps with you.