How We Treat Sleep Apnea Today

Name: How We Treat Sleep Apnea Today
Uploaded: 2025-08-08T16:01:03+00:00
Duration: 25 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains three ways to treat sleep apnea: CPAP machines, surgery, and a 20-minute laser procedure called apnea lase that reshapes airway…

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Dr. Charles Mok explains three ways to treat sleep apnea: CPAP machines, surgery, and a 20-minute laser procedure called apnea lase that reshapes airway tissue. The laser reduces sleep apnea scores by about 70% with no downtime, matching results from CPAP or surgery.

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About 20 minutes.

About 70%.

No downtime.

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.