How soft or how firm you like your mattress to be is called 'density'. The following are density explanations and hints from customers that help us determine the ultimate density for your individual needs. Combinations of foam or cotton, whether you need an innerspring or foam core mattress, pillow top or an adjustable electric bed, are all determined by what you tell us about how you sleep!

Ortho Firm Density
• Hardest mattress manufactured
• Customer either knows he wants this firmness or describes   sleeping habits as liking to sleep on the floor

X-Firm Density (15% softer than Ortho Firm)
• Has some resiliency but mostly surface sleeping
• Customer will talk about liking Hotel Bedding
• Customer will talk about putting board under present mattress

Lux-Firm Density (10% softer than X Firm)
• Has some resiliency but mostly surface sleeping
• Customer talks about needing to sleep straight or flat

Firm Density (Most normal density chosen)
• Designed for most customers sleeping preferences
• Comfortable but supportive
• This density is usually shown first

Medium Firm (10% softer than Firm Density)
• Customer likes to "sink into" mattress rather than sleep "on" it
• Customer talks about problem with arms falling asleep
• Customer wants next step softer than Firm Density

Medium Density (Into the softer range)
• Customer talks about wanting an overall soft feel
• Softest density manufactured without compromising quality

Medium-Soft Density
• Customer wants to sink almost "through" mattress
• Box Spring is also made to match this density

Soft Density
• Customer says he cannot find anything soft enough
• Can be pillow top or can be cotton fabric button tufted

How important is sleep?

Essential to our total well being, sleep helps us feel healthier, think sharper, and enjoy life more fully. Unfortunately, for millions of people, poor sleep and daytime weariness are facts of life.

Make sleep a healthy priority

How much sleep does your body need? How does your sleep environment and mattress affect the rest you get? The answers to these questions can provide some simple solutions to help you improve your sleep and quality of life.

Sleeplessness adds up to a sleep debt

Sleep loss that accumulates from one night to the next is known as a “sleep debt” or sleep deprivation, Even a modest loss of sleep may produce a serious sleep debt when sustained over several nights. The only way to reduce this debt is to get the amount of sleep your body needs.

A good sleep environment (a quiet, cool, dark room and comfortable mattress and foundation) can help you sleep better

Sleep deprivation has high costs. A 1993 report by the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research estimates that sleep deprivation costs billions of dollars annually in accidents and lost productivity to our society. The effects on quality of life for millions of individuals and families are incalculable.

Sleep research shows that inadequate sleep can result in higher stress. Other effects include:

• shortened temper
• lower motivation
• slower reflexes
• and more mistakes

For more information on the importance of sleep click here:

http://www.bettersleep.org/