Surgery Options For Snoring

Surgery Options For Snoring: "If you wake up with bruises all over your body from your sleeping partner using you as a punching bag during the night due to your incessant snoring, it might be time to consider surgery to correct this problem. If you have tried behavioral techniques and conservative therapies such as CPAP for eliminating snoring and everything has failed, see your doctor for advice on surgery options. Your insurance company may consider this an elective or cosmetic surgery. Surgery is a last resort and should only be used in the severest of cases or where serious health risks are involved, such as with sleep apnea. Surgery for snoring may be performed as an outpatient procedure. In the surgical procedures described below, you can get an idea of the options your ontolaryngologist (an ear, nose and throat doctor) may recommend." ... (Click on title link above to read entire article on surgery for snoring.) ...