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A Simple Painless Way To Stop Snoring?
Posted by Dr. Gifford Jones on Aug 24, 2010 at 09:20 PM
Solutions to stop snoring
“Giff, would you look at my throat?”, a medical colleague recently requested. He had been in great pain for several days after being treated for snoring by a new method called laser assisted uvula palatoplasty (LAUP). He was not amused by his doctor’s remark that “it’s a simple, painless, office procedure”. And he uttered a few choice remarks about the doctor that cannot be repeated in this column.
It was the first time I’d looked at a patient’s uvula and soft palate following this treatment. I was aghast at what I saw. It looked like a bomb had exploded in his throat. A “Silent night”, it seems, comes with a price!
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