Abstract

  Retropalatal region is considered the most common site of obstruction in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) [1]. At our institution (as other modern surgeons of obstructive sleep apnea), we believe in and follow the concept of obtaining expansion and stabilization of the collapsible pharyngeal tissues instead of removal of such tissue via implementation of tissue-preservation, non-ablative techniques and we consider this as the recent evolution in surgical treatment of OSA.

Keywords: Retropalatal Region; Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)

References

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Citation

Citation: Mohammad W El-Anwar. “New Suspension Sutures for Retropalatal Obstructive Sleep Apnea". Acta Scientific Otolaryngology 2.10 (2020): 32-33.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2020 Mohammad W El-Anwar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.