@shonna - thank you for posting this: when a former dentist mentioned this many years ago, seemingly out of an overly-enthusiastic pitch for what seemed like the latest "dental appliance", I posed the concern that that would seem to cause headaches from the forced positioning of the jaw. I'd already been dealing with waking up with headaches from a clenched jaw overnight, and teeth-grinding, so how could this help? She did allow that this could cause headaches.

That was a major reason, as nice as she was, for me to move on to a less "sales-y" dentist.

Since then, I've tried over-the-counter dental trays, and the CPAP apparatus twice in a 10-year period (unsuccessfully), so I currently am not addressing it. Like @walk4life, I'm not keen with the idea of a surgically-implanted device, but haven't known what else to do.

But, like so many times before, exercise is on the list asap, which I've acknowledged so often over the past decade but haven't regularly done. Reading posts on other topics here makes me realize how many folks, even older than I, are actively walking, moving, and is inspiring. But, more on that another time!

Thank you for sharing, and best wishes with this challenge!