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Re: Nasal surgery / Cpap efficiency

Posted by KM on December 20, 2002 at 21:22:39:

In Reply to: Re: Nasal surgery / Cpap efficiency posted by rkf on December 19, 2002 at 05:01:24:

To RFK: you said the hyoid suspension and jaw advancement dropped your apneas from 90 to 40. Mine are only at 30 to begin with, but i still suffer from crushing fatigue.

I seem to recall they only do tongue advancement on specific kinds of cases -- did you have an oversized tongue or anything like that?

Someone earlie rsaid the succes rate was 90 percent from the jaw surgery -- but their definition of success is not complete elimination of apneas. they determine it a "success" if they see a 50 percent reduction in the number of apneas.

that's what a maxilo facial surgeon told me

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