How We Treat Sleep Apnea Today

Name: How We Treat Sleep Apnea Today
Uploaded: 2025-08-08T16:01:03Z
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This is a YouTube video titled "How We Treat Sleep Apnea Today" containing a monologue or presentation explaining various treatments for sleep apnea…

8 Aug 2025

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This is a YouTube video titled "How We Treat Sleep Apnea Today" containing a monologue or presentation explaining various treatments for sleep apnea, including CPAP devices, surgery, and a non-surgical laser procedure. The speaker describes the procedures and their effectiveness. The content is informational and medical in nature, created in August 2025.

And the treatments are pretty straightforward. There's devices that people can wear at home called a cpap. It's a device that you wear that helps breathe for you. There's a surgery for it. We have a procedure called night laser apnea lase, where we use a laser to remodel the tissues of your airway. Non surgical. Hurts a little bit, like it's a little hot. Getting it done takes about 20 minutes, but it's totally tolerable. No downtime with it. And typically we reduce sleep apnea scores by about 70%, which is equivalent to using the machine or the CPAP machine or the surgery.