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WHY
SNORING SURGERY
CAN BE A BAD IDEA
Snoring Surgery is not Always Successful
So how does
this relate to snoring? Quite bluntly, it’s this: whereas
some surgeries are a bit more tried and tested
than others, surgery designed to stop, mitigate, or treat
snoring have been less than successful for many people.
Why is this the case? Surgery to treat snoring is designed,
ultimately, to increase the airflow in the trachea; and the
most common surgical way to do this is to cut away some of
the tissue that is clogging up that passageway. Is this a
wise choice?
Possibly, yes, for some snorers this can be a remedy; but
not for all, and certainly not for most. This is because
the problem of snoring is often much deeper than a constricted
trachea.
Yes, as we discussed earlier in this guide that is how snoring
manifests itself as sound: air from the lungs vibrates in
the airflow.
Yet for many people, this is not the ultimate cause of snoring;
that cause, like many medical ailments, is often something
of a mystery, and can change significantly from person to
person.
The example on the following page will help shed some light
on this potentially complex point.
An Example: From Snoring to Insurance
Let’s look at something simple and non-medical: car insurance.
Let’s take 20 people who are considered bad drivers by their
insurance companies. As a result of that dubious distinction,
all of these drivers are going to face a premium increase
of $500 when they’re insurance is renewed.
Now, seen at a distance, it might appear as though all of
these drivers are in the same boat (or same car, as it were).
And given that assumption, a method to deal with this problem
might be to simply give each of these people an extra $500
in cash. Really, as strange as that sounds, this is a way
to solve this problem for each of these 20 drivers: they
need to find $500 more to pay their insurance premium, and
hence, that is what this so-called solution is going to do.
Yet is this wise? No!
Some of those drivers – probably more than a few of them
– are not going to actually correct why they might be classified
as a “bad driver” by their insurance company. They simply
won’t know why they’re bad drivers, and hence, some of them
will likely remain a “bad driver”, and face higher insurance
premiums next year – but this time after a few more accidents
or tickets.
As you can easily see, the real cause of the so-called “bad
driving” isn’t solved when each person is given a nice gift
of $500 with which to pay his or her increased insurance
premium. And since the problem isn’t really solved, the bad
driving can crop up again, and cause financial problems and
even worse, it can endanger health and safety.
So when people readily turn to trachea tissue-cutting surgery
to cure their snoring, they may quite easily be overlooking
the real root cause of the snoring; something that may be
related to diet, sleep position, jaw or tongue dysfunction,
lifestyle, genetics, or be an indication of an even more
serious health problem; an indication that could be dangerously
suppressed (temporarily, at least), after a seemingly successful
surgery.
Going to surgery as an easy, off-the cuff solution for snoring,
is like giving these bad drivers $500 in cash. It may seem
to solve their problem, but for many, it will just be a temporary
fix; masking even deeper problems that can lead to severe
consequences down the road, including Sleep Apnea.
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