If you snore you have it bad enough to have a cpap, my husband has it and I put up with snoring for years, then the VA gave him a test and he had to take it twice to get the righ reading. So you can't trust those places. The cpap machine is a life saving machine I think and it is not noisy, if you get one your husband would love it. My husband has it no matter how much he weights.. So do everything to get one and forget the mouth thing. You could buy a machine for that much..