Four‐year outcomes of palatal implants for primary snoring treatment: A prospective longitudinal study

Abstract

Soft palate implantation is a possible surgical technique with which to attempt to achieve subjective improvement of primary snoring severity. Subjective improvement, however, deteriorates significantly over time, and is only minimally sustained at 4 years postoperatively. This study provides new information on long-term palatal implant effectiveness.

Histological Effects of Er:YAG Laser Irradiation with Snoring Handpiece in the Rat Soft Palate

“…[1][2][3] Although there is no exact definition of snoring, the term indicates to a breathing sound that arises during nighttime or daytime sleep and can be inspiratory, expiratory, or both. 4 The sound of snoring is usually a consequence of the vibration of pharyngeal soft tissue (most commonly soft palate), so treatment focuses on reducing these vibrations. 4,5 The most essential step in snoring detection has been based on manual annotation of snoring events from a polysomnogram.…”

Long-term results of pillar implant procedure

“…In another study, Rotenberg and Luu [12] proved that there was alleviation in snoring in 23 patients compared to the reoperation subjects in 52-week and four-year follow-up period; there was also, however, deterioration when 52-week and four-year follow-ups were compared. They found the average snoring VAS scores to be 9.5 preoperatively, 5.0 in the 52-week followup, and 7.0 in the four-year follow-up.…”

“…Neruntarat [10] followedup their patients for 26 and 32 months. Threeyear follow-up was carried out by Skj Stad and Nordg [11] and four-year follow-up was carried out by Rotenberg and Luu [12] these are the studies that include the longest term follow-ups. In both studies, they encountered no patients with major complications, and they did not report any complaints that would qualify as minor complications.…”

Roncopatía primaria y sus implicancias clínicas: Fin al paradigma de entidad inocua

“…Todos estos procedimientos pueden ser realizados en forma ambulatoria y bajo anestesia local, con una baja tasa de complicaciones 38 . En este caso, los resultados para RP a corto y mediano plazo son aceptables, sin embargo, su efectividad es cuestionable cuando se evalúan a largo plazo 38,39 . En los años 90 se preconizó el uso del láser CO 2 como alternativa para el manejo de la roncopatía y el SAOS, realizándose diferentes técnicas de resección y vaporización de tejidos faríngeos, palatinos y amigdalinos 38 .…”