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Is surgery effective??
My ENT has been recommending a series of reconstructiv esurgery including - correcting deviated septum, tonsillectomy and possible tongue/ soft palette disection.
Has anyone had any improvement with any or all of these surgeries for OSA?
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Permalink Reply by Mike on
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Dina, the short answer is yes, some surgeries can be very helpful, but others can be catastrophic, and that NO surgery will be curative short of a tracheostomy. The long answer is to listen to this Sleep Apnea Surgery sound file -- it's a presentation given at the NYC Sleep Apnea Support Group meeting by Drs. Park and Liberatore on the topic of Sleep Apnea Surgery -- they're both well regarded ENTs in NYC; also do a search on this site of every topic related to Sleep Apnea surgery. It's a very complicated question . . . well, it's a complicated answer to phrase it more accurately.
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Permalink Reply by gordon on
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My doctor (Kaiser Permanente) told me it's dangerous and only for severe conditions. He said you are changing the
structure of the mouth such that food can go down the windpipe instead of to the stomach. This was 7 yrs ago so maybe it's safer now. I read many horror stories.
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before we talk about the pros and cons of surgery, we have to narrow down the topic to the part of the anatomy being operated on: the tongue, the jaw, the palette, the sinuses, etc. each type of surgery is its own beast and presents its own unique benefits and drawbacks...
gordon nelson said:My doctor (Kaiser Permanente) told me it's dangerous and only for severe conditions. He said you are changing the
structure of the mouth such that food can go down the windpipe instead of to the stomach. This was 7 yrs ago so maybe it's safer now. I read many horror stories.
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