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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 “super
bugs”
• 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
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