Snoring Treatments

• Traditional surgical treatments of snoring. You're given general anesthesia while your surgeon tightens and trims excess tissues — a type of face-lift for your throat. The procedure reduces the intensity of snoring most of the time. It's a painful procedure and requires one to three days' hospitalization and about a two-week recovery.
• Laser-assisted uvula palatoplasty [ LAUP]: A laser surgery for snoring procedure removes the airway obstruction. This snoring treatment is performed under local anesthesia in a doctor's office and is intended for snorers and for people with mild obstructive sleep apnea. The doctor uses a small hand-held laser beam to shorten the soft palate and remove the uvula. Removing excess tissue enlarges your airway and reduces vibration. Treatments of snoring are based on the severity of your snoring. You may need two to five sessions, each lasting about 30 minutes. These treatments of snoring occur four to six weeks apart. Laser surgery for snoring isn't advised for occasional or light snoring, but it's an option if your snoring is loud and disruptive. Laser surgery for snoring isn't recommended for sleep apnea.
• Somnoplasty: In this type of surgical snoring treatment, doctors use a low-intensity radio frequency signal to remove part of the soft palate to reduce snoring. It's an outpatient procedure performed using local anesthesia. This snoring treatment can also be used to relieve nasal obstruction. This snoring treatment technique causes slight scarring of the soft palate, which may help to reduce snoring.
• Dental devices and nasal strips: Dental devices are form-fitting mouthpieces that help advance the position of your tongue and soft palate to keep your air passage open. Dental device pulls the tongue and jaw forward making the air passage open to reduce snoring. The dental devices can be available at dentist or outside source. It is safe to consult the dentist as there are many dental devices and not all devices are safe.
  
  Nasal strips help many people increase the area of their nasal passage, enhancing their breathing. Nasal strip consists of one or more bands of plastic embedded in an adhesive pad. The bands attempt to straighten when they are placed properly across the nose. This action makes the sides of the nose to be lifted and therefore space in the nasal valve is widened to maintain airflow through out night.
• Septoplasty and turbinate surgery: This is a surgical snoring Treatment to reduce the resistance to the flow of air through the nose.
• Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). This snoring treatment approach involves wearing a pressurized mask over your nose while you sleep. The mask is attached to a small pump that forces air through your airway to keep it from collapsing. The controlled pressure works as an air splint to keep the soft tissue of the nose and throat in place and the airway open. CPAP eliminates snoring and prevents sleep apnea. Although CPAP is the preferred method of treating sleep apnea, many people find it cumbersome and uncomfortable.
• Stop Snoring Pillows: To reduce snoring, specially constructed pillows are usually used which are made out of foam and have design elements that encourage the snorer to sleep on his or her side.
• Adjustable Beds: an adjustable bed may help the snorer and his partner sleep more peacefully. Sleeping at an elevation of 30 degrees alleviates pressure on the diaphragm and helps keep the airway open. To have the head elevated may also help keep the tongue from collapsing against the uvula.
• Stop Snoring Sprays: A nasal spray may provide temporary relief for those who have blockage due to swelling of the nasal passages or increased mucous. These are perhaps the least effective stop-snoring products since the cause of most snoring is neither tough tissue nor dry throat. In addition, long-term use of sprays can be addictive, injure the tender mucous membranes, and lead to even more severe side effects such as heart arrhythmias and perforation of the nasal septum.
• Nasal Valve Dilators: Nasal valve dilators can only help with the least common type of snoring, primary snoring due to clogged nasal passages. One of the two most common types of nasal valve dilator is a flexible piece of plastic, the ends of which are inserted into the nostrils. This type of dilator is relatively uncomfortable and needs replacement several times a year. The other type of nasal valve dilators, which is the least expensive is an adhesive strip worn over the bridge of the nose while sleeping. The strips aren’t reusable and may fall off during sleep. Another problem is that the adhesive may cause skin irritation.

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