Device, Anti-Snoring
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §872.5570 (Dental panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Device, Anti-Snoring LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#440 of 1000 · 2,628 reports · 2003–2026
- BOOK 2,628 reports
- RANK #440 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 728 injury-typed
- MALF 1,878 malfunction
- SPAN 2003–2026
- PEAK 2026: 761
- PHOTO Handpiece
Nearest event-volume peer: Handpiece, Contra- And Right-Angle Attachment, Dental (1 report gap)
Device, Anti-Snoring sits #440 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,628 MAUDE reports spanning 2003–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Device, Anti-Snoring carries 71.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 6.6pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 27.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-2.6 pp)
- MALF 71.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+6.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer PRISMATIK DENTALCRAFT, INC. accounts for 73% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 83% of location-tagged rows .
Device, Anti-Snoring in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Staple
Staple, Fixation, Bone
2,647 reports
- Handpiece
Handpiece, Contra- And Right-Angle Attachment, Dental
2,629 reports
- Device (this)
Device, Anti-Snoring
2,628 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Trunnion-Bearing, Femoral, Metal/Polyacetal
2,621 reports
- Cerclage
Cerclage, Fixation
2,614 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic
2,605 reports
What this shows Device, Anti-Snoring carries 2,628 MAUDE reports, ranked #440 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports rose to 660 in 2025, up from an average of 118 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Device, Anti-Snoring
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare PRISMATIK DENTALCRAFT, INC. vs MEDTRONIC XOMED, INC. →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Device, Anti-Snoring: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (2,628 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Device, Anti-Snoring are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.
Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Device, Anti-Snoring; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.