Sleep Disorders and LAUP Laser Surgery

During regular breathing, air passes through the throat on its way to the lungs. The air goes past the soft palate, uvula, tonsils, and tongue causing sleep disorders and LAUP laser surgery or rather the need for it. When somebody is awake, the muscles in the back of the throat tighten to hold these structures in place keeping them from collapsing and/or vibrating in the airway. During sleep, the uvula and soft palate often vibrate causing the recognizable sounds of snoring.

The LAUP procedure is a laser procedure designed to trim and shorten these structures, thus keeping or reducing snoring.

Complications and Risks

You have the right to be advised that the operation may involve risks of unsuccessful results, complications, or trauma from both known and unexpected causes. Because people vary in their tissue circulation and healing processes, as well as anesthetic response, finally there can be no warranty made as to the effects or prospective complications. The following complications have been reported in medical literature. This list is not meant to be inclusive of every feasible complication. They are listed here for your information only, not to scare you, merely to make you aware and more knowledgeable concerning this surgical procedure.

1. Failure to fix the snoring. Many surgeons feel that about 80+% of people who undergo a LAUP will have a considerable or everlasting resolution to their snoring; and an extra percentage of will notice decreased levels of snoring such that their sleep partners will report that its level is no longer offensive.

2. Failure to cure sleep apnea or other pathological sleep disorders. Pathological sleep disorders, like sleep apnea, are medical problems which could have connected critical complications. At this time, the LAUP procedure has not been proven to cure these disorders.

3. Bleeding. In very rare situations, a demand for blood products or a blood transfusion. You have the right, should you choose, to have autologous or designated donor directed blood pre-arranged. You are encouraged to consult with your doctor if you are interested.

4. Nasal regurgitation, a change in voice, or velopharyngeal insufficiency when liquids could flow into the nasal cavity during swallowing (rare).

5. Failure to answer coexisting sinus, tonsil, or nasal troubles.

6. Ask for revision, or further and more aggressive surgery.

7. Long-term pain, impaired healing, and the need for hospitalization

Sleep Disorders and LAUP Laser Surgery come hand in hand these days and are fairly common. Do not suffer for years look into laser surgery today