METHOD FOR SURGICAL TREATMENT OF SNORING: MODIFIED FRONT PALATOPLASTY

摘要

FIELD: medicine.;SUBSTANCE: oval section of the soft palate mucosa is cut out and removed. The upper boundary of the section passes at the level of the hook-shaped processes of the sphenoid bone (Hamulus) internal pterygoid plates. The lateral borders are limited by a line drawn downward from the hook-shaped processes. The lower boundary is 1 cm up from the uvula base. Three nodal sutures are imposed at m. Levator veli palatini on the middle line and receding 0.5 cm to the sides, with formation of a muscular cushion.;EFFECT: method allows to reduce obstruction at the soft palate level, reduce snoring, reduce the pain syndrome in the postoperative period, excludes the possibility of formation of cicatricial changes in the pharynx and its lateral narrowing due to an increase in the distance between the posterior pharyngeal wall and the soft palate.;2 cl, 5 dwg, 1 ex