Sleep apnea obstructive pillar is a surgical procedure that has a surgeon implant three small tube like or pillars in to the roof of a person's mouth or the soft palate. It will not

be noticed once it's been implanted and will not interfere with a person's speech or swallowing.

Obstructive sleep apnea is when the airway in the throat or nasal passageway is blocked or otherwise obstructed so that the air can not comfortably flow through. This means that a person will stop breathing at night while they are sleeping and this can cause them to wake up many times, even upwards of 100 or more, which has a devastating effect on their sleep and overall health.

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The FDA – Food and Drug Administration has put their stamp of approval on this procedure as a safe alternative to some of the other surgical procedures and the CPAP – continuous positive airway pressure machine. More people find that they will tolerate the pillar procedure better than the CPAP because it is less intrusive and people barely notice they are there.

More and more people are giving up on the CPAP machine because it forces steamed air into the nose and down the throat to keep the airways open for the duration of someone's sleep. This is very uncomfortable for most people and can be claustrophobic if they have a full face mask. There are the smaller, non-facial masks that all the air to be pushed through two small nose 'buds' or an air pillow under the nose that some people find more comfortable, although the entire process is uncomfortable and intrusive to many.

These three small pillars are made of polyester rods and are about the size of toothpick cut down to about an inch and a half or a little longer. They are extremely well tolerated and in fact, once the initial couple days of feeling them with the tongue are over, people don't even know they are there any longer.

These three small pillars will offer support to the soft palate during sleep and will present relief from snoring as well. These rods help to harden the soft palate tissue, causing it to bind with the pillars. When the stiffening, which is really very slight, happens, it keeps this area from relaxing while one sleeps which is the root cause of snoring and sleep apnea. This stiffening adds a structural support which reduces the vibrations that could cause the snoring and the palatal tissue collapse that is obstructing the airways in the upper airways that will cause the obstructive sleep apnea.

The entire procedure takes only about an hour under a general, which is minimally invasive and there is a lot less recovery time then traditional surgeries. People also experience less daytime drowsiness as the do with the sleep apnea or CPAP machines.

One of the best things about these pillars is that they are removable if they do not work out. Other surgical procedures are permanent and are not reversible.

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