ABSTRACT
The procedure is indicated for the reduction of chronically enlarged tonsils, particularly when associated with obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) conditions, such as habitual snoring, upper airway resistance syndrome, and sleep apnea, or when associated with related dysphonia, dysphagia, or malocclusion. It has also proved useful in the treatment of recalcitrant cryptic tonsil disease (chronic inflammatory cryptitis and tonsillith formation). As is the case with other methods of subtotal reduction, since tonsil tissue remains, it is probably not indicated for control of recurrent infectious tonsillitis.
