You should carefully study the true reason of snoring before you consider surgery as an opportunity to get rid of it. The cause of snoring – vibration of tissues in the airway. If someone has sleep apnea, blockages appear in the airway. Surely, not all who have problems with snoring are suffering from sleep apnea, and therefore not everyone who has sleep apnea suffers from snoring, which is not cured. But snoring anyway is a widespread symptom of sleep apnea.
If you want to do surgery, you first must make sure that you do not have sleep apnea. It should be noted that if you remove the snoring, sleep apnea may still stay not cured.
Some people snore only in certain situations. An example of such situation: some person has nasal congestion and she cannot breathe through nose. People with this problem are more likely to snore. Also common cause of snoring is deviation of nasal septum or blocking of nasal passages by a number of other reasons. People who prefer to sleep on back or like to drink alcohol before bedtime, tend to snore.
It is necessary and very important to conduct research whether the snoring is related of sleep apnea. If such a relationship exists, the next step is to establish the severity of the problem.
Surgery as a method of getting rid of snoring is not a rare situation. Laser-Assisted Uvuloplatoplasty (LAUP) is one of the most common surgeries to stop snoring. This method is also used to treat sleep apnea. The procedure is as follows: a doctor amputates the uvula (the tissue which hangs in the center of the roof of the mouth) using a laser. Radio Frequency Tissue Ablation (RFTA) is also new procedure, used in the surgical treatment of snoring. This operation also reduces the uvula. If you choose such surgery, it may take several sessions. There is a little information about this procedure because it is new. Tongue suspension procedure is another surgery to stop snoring. It is designed to prevent retraction of the tongue back into the airway during sleep. This method is as follows: a small screw is inserted into your lower jaw and stapled below the tongue. Such operation is reversible. The effectiveness of this operation is not yet evaluated.
Other operations are the removal of obstacles in the nose or nasal septum curvature correction. This operation is effective if there is substantial blockage in the nose. This procedure also improves breathing during the day.
Necessarily consult with your doctor to make sure that surgery is safe for your health. Operations must suit you anatomically. Check the safety and efficiency of surgery operations in a special standardized literature. You should consider cases similar to yours, because efficiency is different for each person and depends on each case. If you are not sure what to choose, you should hear the other opinion. Only a doctor who has acquainted with your case can advise you to do surgery.