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This, indeed, is something of a wake-up call for people who have equated surgery with
certainty.
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 book 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.
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