Many patients seeking surgery to straighten the nasal septum hope that this will help relieve their snoring and sleep apnea. Otari Gogiberidze, the leading surgeon of the aesthetic medicine Time of Beauty clinic, told socialbites.ca whether such a surgical intervention is really effective in solving these problems.
This operation is called septoplasty. It is performed both for aesthetic reasons, when the patient is not satisfied with the shape of the nasal septum, and for medical reasons. Depending on how severe the deformity is, the patient may experience various unpleasant symptoms: dryness and itching, constant nasal congestion, respiratory problems, etc.
“Sometimes snoring and sleep apnea can actually be related to septal deviation. But even in this case, septoplasty may not always help. The truth is that these ailments have many causes. Therefore, complex treatment is often required to address these problems,” he said.
In other words, in addition to chronic nasal congestion, the causes of snoring and sleep apnea may be overweight, anatomical structure of the neck, endocrine and hormonal disorders, smoking, alcohol, sleeping pills and tranquilizer use, hereditary and other causes. diseases.
“Accordingly, in some cases, relieving nasal congestion by only correcting the septum deviation may be sufficient to solve the problem. In other cases, other health issues will need to be addressed. Therefore, it is impossible to say with certainty that septoplasty will help solve these problems. Here everything is individual and depends on the characteristics of each patient,” emphasized Gogiberidze.
However, he recommended that if a person has a significant deviation of the septum, they should not neglect this problem. In addition to an aesthetic defect and discomfort, this pathology can be dangerous to health. For example, against this background, damage to the hearing organs, frequent respiratory infections, nosebleeds, etc.
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Source: Gazeta
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