Snoring - a common disease
Snoring is not just disturbing for the partner. Snoring leads to lasting weariness, decreased efficiency right up to health endangering sleep disorders. The causes of snoring are multi-faceted: enjoying alcohol in the evening, food intake at night or even smoking.
The causes are responsible for anatomical changes. These include obstructed nasal breathing - nasal muscular hyperplasia - soft gums - uvula -, slackened soft palate or velum as well as thickening of the tongue base.
The ambulatory use of diode laser under local anesthesia offers conspicuous advantages here. Exceptional operative successes are achieved through a minimum invasive, low bleeding treatment - a 3-4 week post operative healing process is normal.
Diode laser is used to stretch the palate (LAUPP) and to reduce the nasal muscular tissues. Corrections of the septum deviation and pharyngeal obstruction are carried out to some extent simultaneously. They lead to an improvement of nasal breathing.
In most cases, all these laser activities can be performed in one sitting.
Under normal circumstances, the patients can leave the clinic shortly after the laser treatment and resume their normal activities. Of course, sports activities are not recommended in the first few days.
