Tongue Suspension
People who are obese, have a high body mass index or have snoring problems are most at risk of developing sleep apnea. Surgeons of today are helping hundreds of patients who suffer from sleep apnea and snoring through tongue suspension, better known as repose procedure. Tongue suspension involves placing a small titanium screw in the jaw. A suture (which is attached to the screw) is threaded through the tongue and tightened. The purpose is to hold the tongue in its proper place when a person is sleeping in order to prevent obstruction in the airway. This procedure takes about 20 minutes and does not involve removing a portion of the tongue. Although the procedure generally does not affect taste, tongue movement or sensation, patients who undergo such procedure are typically advised to be on a soft diet for weeks.

Radio Frequency Tissue Ablation (RFTA)
Also known as sonoplasty, radio frequency tissue ablation is a procedure that uses radiofrequency energy to warm and shrink tissues that causes airway obstruction. Target sites include the inferior turbinates in the nose, the soft palate in the throat, and the back of the tongue. RFTA can be done in the doctor’s clinic with local anesthesia and is minimally invasive. Hence, usually more than one treatment is necessary for a gradual hardening and shrinkage of the obstruction sites.

Laser-Assisted Uvulopalatoplasty (LAUP).
Although more than one session may be needed for this procedure, laser assisted uvulopalatoplasty is the most commonly used surgery to address and alleviate snoring problems and sleep apnea. In the LAUP, the surgeon uses a laser to cut away the uvula, the tissue that hangs from the middle of the back of the roof of the mouth.

Coblation Channeling
This is the newest snoring surgery and it was approved by the FDA in 2000. Coblation channeling like RFTA uses radio frequency energy to shrink or completely remove the tissue that causes blockage in the airway.

Believe it or not, stress was the primary cause of me not being able to fall asleep in the evening the millions of other people do. As a matter of fact, my good friend, who is also a doctor that practices alternative medicine like Chinese acupuncture told me about this but I simply didn’t want to hear him out till the end. For me such a connection was simply absurd. Now, after reading many books and understanding “how life really works” I finally managed to get the idea and to have a normal perspective on the reflection of stress on the chronic sleeping problem that most people experience these days. As a matter of fact, it doesn’t really mean that you have to feel really bad. Stress is a common factor among many others.

So, in order to get rid of those sleepless nights I had to get rid of my way of reacting to bad news, I had to change my diet (stop eating so much meat in the first place). The rat race that we are living in on a daily basis is something that people like you and me get influenced by and this is where most of our health problems, including your problem sleeping during those long nights appear. I need to tell the whole world that there is a need for a new revolution regarding how we think and do things in life. In most of the cases, people are just too ignorant and don’t want to pay attention to what they do and why they do it. How come most of the people that are having trouble falling asleep don’t understand that pills that they get in that prescription isn’t going to help much. Those are only going to make you artificilally stop worrying. It’s like a drug, don’t take it because the possibility of experiencing different obscure secondary effects is quite big.