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Newest Surgery for Snoring is Somnoplasty

May 6th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Before I discuss the newest surgery for snoring, I’d like to reiterate that surgery should always be a last resort. Most of our health problems are due to poor lifestyle choices. It doesn’t make any sense to subject your body to surgery for something that can be fixed naturally. So having said that, the newest surgery for snoring is Somnoplasty.

Food and Drug Administration approved this new surgery for snoring in 1997. Somnoplasty is a procedure for sufferers of sleep apnea and doesn’t require the patient to be admitted.

Somnoplasty for Sleep Apnea

This newest surgery for snoring can be performed right in the office of an ear, nose, and throat doctor. Low-powered radiofrequency energy is used on the base of the tongue to create lesions that are absorbed by the tissue. The remaining tissue become harder. This is preformed using local anesthesia and pain medication is only required for two to three days after the surgery. This is much less painful than previous procedures that required the patient to be on pain pills for weeks.

Somnoplasty has very few side effects and there have been no reports of bleeding, infection or airway compromises. There have been a few complaints of soreness immediately following the surgery. All patients that have undergone this newest surgery for snoring have reported absolute improvement in breathing. Also over 75 per cent of patients reported a decrease in the severity and frequency of breathing problems. Most of the patients recorded decreased daytime sleepiness and a huge 77 per cent decrease in snoring.

A Successful Solution to Chronic Snoring

This newest surgery for snoring can also treat Chronic snoring. This is also an out-patient procedure that is carried out right in the doctor’s office. The radiofrequency waves reduce the soft-palate tissue volume, which allows the air to freely pass through, thus dramatically decreasing snoring.

Patients average a 69 per cent reduction in snoring and nearly 40 per cent reduction of waking tired after sleeping. Also this surgery is safe enough to be used for the same problem twice if necessary to produce sufficiently taut skin and eliminate or decrease the incidence of snoring. Ask your doctor if you can enjoy a better quality of life by opting for this surgical procedure.

Very few doctors in the country are qualified to perform the newest surgery for snoring, Somnoplasty. There are only a few hundred. Most doctors should be able easily refer you to a competent physician capable of performing the procedure.