Snoring surgery disadvantages and complications

As a cure for snoring You should leave surgery as your last option and you should start with the natural ways to cure snoring.
Surgery has many disadvantages and drawbacks starting from the general surgical complications to the specific complications of snoring surgery

Some Disadvantages of snoring surgery


  • The very high cost compared to other methods to cure snoring specially because snoring surgery is rarely or even not covered by health insurance systems
  • Surgery for snoring will not cure sleep apnea and even may worsen the problem
  • Surgery is effective in only about 50% to 75% of cases
  • Post operative pain and difficult swallowing that may last for 14 days
  • Snoring surgery can affect some languages (not English but in some African and middle-eastern languages as Arabic and in Native American languages) Read a story of an Arabic interpreter who was snoring  
  • Even if initially successful snoring can return after a few months