DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My sweetheart snores so loudly that it upsets both his and my sleep. How do you help someone with this terrible problem? -- F.F. ANSWER: Snoring results from the vibration of loose and redundant tissues at the back of the mouth and in the throat. It's the same mechanism by which the reed of a wind instrument produces music, except that snoring isn't music.

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