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Re: MMA and UPPP

Posted by seattlebill on December 22, 2005 at 06:47:25:

In Reply to: MMA and UPPP posted by Harley11 on December 21, 2005 at 19:56:14:

That kinda figures...

Well, snoring is the "side-effect" of sleep apnea. If you had an MMA/GA and fixed your apnea, and then snored...it would be safer and better for health...but a nuisance.

There are other lesser and isolated procedures (RF Tongue somnoplasty...out-patient or in office) that will probably help your snoring once your apnea is better addressed.

On the other hand, a UPPP may help your total airway to improve the outcome of your MMA (this is just my opinion...not backed by any papers or data that I know of). I'd check with the MMA guy and see what he thinks about getting the UPPP to help the MMA, or getting an MMA and a more benign (and less expensive) procedure to address snoring.

The conventional ENT guy may be right...of course UPPPs are what he does...and Holiday bills need to be paid.

Good luck,

Bill

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