WHY SNORING SURGERY
CAN BE A BAD IDEA

Other Reasons to Just Say NO to Snoring Surgery

Again, we return to the unfortunately familiar theme that surgery has become an easy first option for many physicians who, for a variety of reasons (including, sometimes, financial ones) find themselves recommending surgery as an almost off the cuff solution to a serious snoring problem.

Sometimes, what is lost in this snoring surgical-obsession are some very basic and established risks. For those who are not immediately familiar with such risks, they include:

• post-operative medical conditions, including aesthetic and cosmetic concerns

• infection from hospitals (including the emerging antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”

• scarring of tissues that can lead to painful inflammation

• expensive follow-up to surgery

• time consuming follow-up which may cause extended periods of leave from work (potentially adding to the overall cost of the salary in lost wages/salary)

• expensive medications to control swelling

• possible damage to speech, including changing voice

• possible problems with swallowing

• possible hemorrhaging

• possible uncomfortable and distracting dry mouth

• possible intense ear pain

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