What is snoring laser treatment?
Laser for Snoring is a safe treatment that is an effective treatment carried out in Dr. Korkis’s office using local anaesthetic. The patient remains fully awake and sitting upright on a comfortable chair. After the area has been treated with local anaesthetic, the specially designed CO2 laser is used to ablate the uvula, trim and reshape the excessive tissue. Dr. Korkis’s modified own technique renders the need of only one session to achieve the goal of the treatment in the great majority of patients. However, occasionally, a second treatment may be required after 6-12 weeks. The treatment takes approximately 10-15 minutes. What are the benefits of laser surgery? Laser snoring treatment itself is painless. However once the local anaesthetic effect dissipates , a sore throat with discomfort on swallowing of varying intensity occurs which commonly last anything between 7-14 days and is managed by suitable pain pills given before and after the treatment. We normally conduct the treatment
