snoring devices

When a human is awake the tongue is instinctively bent forward and flattened out. During sleep the tongue relaxes and reverts to its natural "humped" shape, meaning that the top surface of the tongue moves up towards the roof of the mouth and the back of the tongue moves back towards the back of the throat. If this backward movement is unchecked, the tongue will contact or nearly contact the soft palate to partially or completely block the airway. With partial blocking, as air is forced past the blockage the soft palate vibrates producing the familiar snoring noise.