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Whenever we are advised surgery, the first thing most of us tend to do is to talk about it with our friends and family. Once in a while, someone may come up with his or her surgery experience, and most of the time we take this opinion to be our guide for our own decisions. But is this a reliable way to make up your mind? If for example, you have been recommended somnoplasty, and one of your friends had a series of complications post surgery, do you think it best to rely on your friend’s experience and cancel your somnoplasty surgery plans?

Perhaps a better option to know about the somnoplasty success rate and get the most authentic information available is from authority sites on the internet, many of which carry excerpts of clinical studies that have been done to assess its efficacy under varying conditions. There are also several online forums and review sites where past candidates have expressed their own views about somnoplasty success rate. Once you have studied all these reports and reviews you can get true pictures about what to expect after somnoplasty including somnoplasty complications, side effects, and risks and so on.

When you are thinking about somnoplasty success rate, keep in mind that many people have different interpretations of the term ‘successes’. While some may think that somnoplasty is successful when he is cured completely of his existing sleeping disorders; another set of people would think of success as minimal or manageable side effects and post surgical complications. What does ‘success’ mean to you? In fact, as far as somnoplasty is concerned, increasing the success rate and reducing complications could depend on you too.

From the various clinical report extracts and forum postings that appear on the internet, one can safely conclude that somnoplasty success rate cannot be assessed with just one treatment session, since majority of patients get significant relief from snoring or sleep apnea symptoms only after 5 to 6 treatment sessions. The second aspect on which the success rate could depend is on your individual health condition and the degree of severity of the ailment.

With this as the backdrop, you have to keep in mind that somnoplasty success rate is somewhat similar to any outpatient surgical procedure that is done with local anesthesia. The somnoplasty complications too are in no way very different. For example there could be bleeding, infection at the site of surgery, blood clots and of course pain.

However the good news is that most of these after-effects do not last for too long and are controllable with prescribed pain killers, etc. Other complications include sore throat and swelling, which again can be brought under control with medications.

As mentioned, you can actually increase the success rate of somnoplasty procedure if you take the steps mentioned below:

1. Try and sip some ice cold water immediately after the surgery. This can help you get some quick relief from sore throat as well as pain.
2. Wait till the anesthesia effect dies down before you grab any liquid. Feeling thirsty is normal after any anesthesia use.

It is rather difficult to provide any concrete figure of somnoplasty success rate. The reasons for this are because ENT surgeons do not follow a single protocol format when performing somnoplasty; the second reason is that to increase the success of the procedure, many surgeons combines somonplasty with another procedure.

According to www.nwface.com, a site that claims to have one of the highest numbers of treatment sessions with somnoplasty, 95% success rate can be achieved after 2 to 3 treatment sessions. The remaining can feel a definite improvement in their snoring condition demanding only minor touch-up surgeries for getting complete relief.

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Source by marcmac