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Trial: Oral Surgery Helps in Sleep Apnea – MedPage Today
Strategy combines palatal stabilization, tongue reduction
In a randomized trial, surgery to widen and stabilize the soft palate and reduce tongue size improved outcomes among patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) for whom conventional treatments had failed.
In early findings from the multicenter trial, palatal surgery combined with minimally invasive tongue volume reduction reduced the number of sleep apnea events and improved patient-reported sleepiness at 6 months, compared with ongoing medical management, according to Stuar…
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