Evaluation Procedure
Patient were chose who had files about their polysomnographical evaluation results from sleep laboratories or from outpatient evaluations. The data were chose as base values for the evaluation. All diagnoses were not older than six months. The patients had guaranteed that they were not to undergo other therapy treatments during the Face Former Therapy. Some patients, whom were handled with NCPAP and BIPAP, no longer used or stopped using the devices for reasons of poor acceptance. None of the test persons had undergone an operation for snoring.
During the control appointments, the patients recorded their own assumptions to the changes in sleep, daily tiredness, vigilance and to the effect on the general state of being in a scale from one to ten (1 = worst, 10 = best).
During every appointment measurement of lip strength were taken with the ISST Myo Bar Meter and recorded as real-time diagnostics. Thereby, the assumption was made that an improved lip strength increased the probability that the mouth closed during the sleep phase and through the nightly closure of the mouth, nose breathing could become habit.
After 12 weeks, every patient took part in an outpatient polysomnographical evaluation. The evaluation was repeated again after three months (six months after therapy start). The results were used as the final evaluation data.