ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022
The Impact of Mouth-Taping in Mouth-Breathers with Mild Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Preliminary Study.
Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06587256 (Mouth Tape for Snoring and Sleep Apnea), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Mouth Tape for Snoring and Sleep Apnea (MTASSA)
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- The Spread of Non-Evidence-Based Health Claims on Social Media: The Case of #Mouthtape on Instagram, a Cross-Sectional Study.Dentistry journal · 2026Article
- Mandibular Advancement for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Efficacy and the Trade-off of Expiratory Velopharyngeal Obstruction During Sleep Endoscopy - An Exploratory Observational Study.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the readability, quality, and accuracy of AI chatbot responses to questions about deleterious oral habits.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Comparison of nasal passage and palatal volume in obstructive sleep apnea patients and healthy individuals using cone beam computed tomography.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2025Article
- Clinical and Cephalometric Correlation between Mouth-breathing and Nasal-breathing Children.International journal of clinical pediatric dentistry · 2025Article
- Acute nasal breathing lowers diastolic blood pressure and increases parasympathetic contributions to heart rate variability in young adults.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2023Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundMany patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are mouth-breathers. Mouth-breathing not only narrows the upper airway, consequently worsening the severity of OSA, but also it affects compliance with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment. This study aimed to investigate changes in OSA by the use of mouth tape in mouth-breathers with mild OSA.
methodMouth-breathers with mild OSA who met inclusion criteria and tolerated the sealing of the mouth were enrolled in the study. We used 3M silicone hypoallergenic tape was used to seal the mouths of the participants during sleep. The home sleep test (HST) used in this study was ApneaLink
resultsA total of 20 patients with mild OSA were included. Following the taping of the mouth, a good response was found in 13 patients (65%). The median apnea/hypopnea index (AHI) decreased significantly, from 8.3 to 4.7 event/h (by 47%,
conclusionsMouth-taping during sleep improved snoring and the severity of sleep apnea in mouth-breathers with mild OSA, with AHI and SI being reduced by about half. The higher the level of baseline AHI and SI, the greater the improvement was shown after mouth-taping. Mouth-taping could be an alternative treatment in patients with mild OSA before turning to CPAP therapy or surgical intervention.
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