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How to Stop Snoring WITHOUT Surgery
 
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Name of Surgery

Designed to…
Reported Problems…

LAUP (Laser Assisted Uvuloplasty)

Uses lasers to remove uvula and obstructing tissues, without removing tonsils or lateral tissues

û       dry mouth

û       Changes to voice (to be avoided by people who require their voice to earn their living!)

û       pain in the ears

û       unpredictable success rate

û       can mask deeper problems and/or lead to new complications
CAPSO (Cautery-assisted palatal stiffening operation)

Burns the palate in order to stiffen it against vibration, and removes the mucosa along the uvula.

û       post-operation discomfort and pain

û       currently in experimental stages (unproven)

û       difficulty predicting if surgery will be successful

û       expensive

 

 

And there are a few new surgical options that are gaining some attention, including somnoplasty and snoreplasty.  Like CAP SO, these procedures are unproven and the success rate, and long-term impact, is not yet known. 

 

Overall, then, while snoring surgery can be useful and effective for some sufferers (and their families, roommates, neighbors, heck, even their pets!), it’s clear that surgery has not proven to a panacea, offering risk-free cures for this dangerous, and potentially life-affecting condition.

 

Fortunately, however, there are some proven non-surgical remedies – some quite old and some rather new – that are helping hundreds of millions of people deal effectively, responsibly, and safely with their snoring problem.  We now look at several of those non-surgical remedies in Section 4.  

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