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Re: Tongue Suspension

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Posted by Alamo Joe on September 10, 2000 at 08:14:45:
In Reply to: Re: Tongue Suspension posted by Frank on September 09, 2000 at 19:46:56:
Frank:
I think that the operation that John is thinking of is a suture through the rear of the tongue, said suture being tied to a screw inside the jaw at the front. It is reversible.
If the sleep studies provided informatin on RDI in all sleeping positions, a high RDI on one's back will indicate that the tongue is a problem. (There may be situations where this is not true, but at least the individual has an idea of the relative problems.) RDI less than 5 on either side and 46 on my back. I have a tongue problem. I have not seen and papers which report on effectiveness of surgeries in which positional RDIs are provided. It would seem logical that idf one is to evaluate how effective tongue surgery is, one would check to determine how effective the surgery was in improving the problem area.
At one time I had a trache. The study on the effectiveness of the trache reported that it worse worse than without it. Once I corrected for the math errors, it was equal to no trache. One person (Was it you?) reported the extensive efforts needed to find a viable trache. He became more of an expert on traches than his doctor.
Frank, I had not heard the "Try the jaw device first, it will provide a good idea." thank you.
ca Alamo Joe

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