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“We hope to better understand how breathing drives snoring and identify the dominant sound generation mechanisms.”<\/p>\n
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He explained that if you touch the roof of your mouth, directly behind your teeth, you’ll feel a rigid, almost bony surface.<\/p>\n
That is the hard palate, which extends for several inches into the back of your mouth.<\/p>\n
But, further back, the hard surface gives way to a smoother, more spongy texture called the soft palate.<\/p>\n
That soft tissue was the focus of the team’s analysis.<\/p>\n
Using their computational model, the researchers re-created the environment of the upper airway, simulating the movement of air through the mouth and watching closely for any sound-producing vibrations.<\/p>\n
Li, a Ph.D. candidate, said: “Our results suggest that reducing soft palate vibration or unsteady aerodynamic loading may help reduce palatal snoring.<\/p>\n
“This could inform evaluation of palatal stiffening procedures or other interventions that modify tissue mechanics or airflow.”<\/p>\n
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While their model can reveal the mechanics behind snoring, the researchers say it is still too simplified to offer detailed recommendations for preventing it.<\/p>\n
For that, the team is now planning to expand the simulation to incorporate effects from possible treatment options.<\/p>\n
Li said: “Our next step is to investigate how palatal stiffness affects its vibration and the resulting snoring sound.”<\/p>\n
He added: “By systematically varying tissue stiffness, we aim to determine how it changes oscillation amplitude, dominant frequency, airflow patterns, and acoustic source strength.<\/p>\n
“This may clarify how palatal stiffening treatments reduce vibration and identify mechanical conditions that could reduce palatal snoring.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by Vitaly Gariev via Pexels) By Talker By Stephen Beech Loud snoring could be reduced thanks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,17,133,19412],"class_list":["post-644385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-stephen-beech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117118973056432034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}