Laser treatment

[jeresoph]

Hi all:
Has anybody heard of the Nightlase laser treatment option? Apparently, it's a non-invasive laser treatment for both snoring and OSA. It consists of 3x20 minute light sessions with a laser to remove some amount of one's soft palate. No anesthetic is involved, and it has a high success rate. It does not involve the scary surgical option that can leave very pronounced side effects and not a very high success rate.
The original inventor is a dentist called Dr. Schiffman, and he practices in Florida.
Is this process too good to be true? Did anyone look into it?
I want to get excited about this, but before I go too far on the rabbit hole, I thought I would ask you very informed folks if you had heard of this and whether it's legitimate.
Thanks for any advice you can offer.

[ChicagoGranny]

Is this process too good to be true?

Yes, it's too good to be true.

It's not promoted for sleep apnea.

If your sleep test shows that you have simple snoring without sleep apnea ...

https://www.tmjsleepapnea.com/blog/nigh ... ing/[quote]

[zonker]

Hi all:
Has anybody heard of the Nightlase laser treatment option?

not until this post. a quick google search tells me-
The final results of the treatment have been shown to last up to a year, and the therapy can be repeated.

so far, my cpap machine driven therapy has lasted me eight years.

not trying to be snide here. just saying i'll stick with a very reliable system for treating my sleep apnea and not mess with something like nightlase.

besides, how does one know if it effectively treats osa? take another sleep test? once a year?

nope.

[Grumpy48]

I believe this is the procedure a friend of my wife had I think a couple years ago. Most recently she was waiting for delivery of her CPAP from a DME following her sleep study. Don't know anything more than this.

[lazarus]

Messing with the way the soft palate works can make it difficult for an APAP to work properly, since snores and breath shapes can inform an APAP algorithm as to what pressures should be delivered.

[chunkyfrog]

My previous dentist had some sort of laser treatment.
He ended up needing a bilevel machine where he only needed cpap before.
And he could not talk while eating, as food would go down the wrong way.
A wretched thing to do to a nice guy.

[knarf]

My previous dentist had some sort of laser treatment.
He ended up needing a bilevel machine where he only needed cpap before.
And he could not talk while eating, as food would go down the wrong way.
A wretched thing to do to a nice guy.

[chunkyfrog]

Obviously, his medical specifics are private, and I asked no questions,
mostly because I was unable to speak--as he was WORKING.