1. Surgical management of obstructive sleep apnea involves procedures to address three major areas of obstruction - nasal, retropalatal, and retrolingual.
2. Common nasal procedures are septoplasty, turbinate reduction, and sinus surgery, though nasal surgery alone is unlikely to significantly improve OSA.
3. Procedures for the retropalatal area include uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP), uvulopalatal flap, palatal implants, and laser assisted uvuloplasty. Tongue base procedures target the retrolingual area and involve partial glossectomy, lingualplasty, and radiofrequency tongue base ablation.
9. NASAL SURGERY
• Nasal obstruction - poor sleep quality, snoring, and
OSA.
• Septoplasty, turbinate reduction, nasal valve surgery,
and sinus surgery .
• However, nasal procedures are unlikely to
significantly improve OSA when used alone.
• Initial step in OSA management so as to facilitate
better CPAP adherence.
13. Z - palatoplasty
• Friedman M, Ibrahim H, Vidyasagar R. Z-palatoplasty (ZPP): a technique for patients without tonsils. Otolaryngol
Head Neck Surg 2004;131:89–100; with permission. Copyright 2004 The American Academy of Otolaryngology–
Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Inc
21. GENIOGLOSSAL ADVANCEMENT
• The rectangular geniotubercle osteotomy modification
offers excellent tension on the genioglossus muscle with
a minimal fracture risk. The geniotubercle fragment is
rotated enough to allow bony overlap. A single inferiorly
placed miniscrew is used to fix the fragment.
26. Surgical Treatment Success
• apnea-hypopnea index less than 20 with a
reduction greater than 50% and few desaturations
less than 90% with improvement of subjective
symptoms.
1923-pierre robin french surgeon
2014 AADSM american association for dental sleep medicine
Position report defining effective oral appliance
Dual arch design,adjustable >5mm,lifespan -3yrs,optimum fit and comfort
Efficacy – CPAP >MAD but compliance MAD>CPAP
Combination therapy
Uars--- not meeting criteria of OSA but pt have respiratory effort related arousals and excessive day time somnolence
An anatomically-based staging system is made to identify areas of obstruction, and
helps in tailoring the appropriate surgical treatment for each individual.
• The severity of disease is a secondary factor, which plays a role in determining the
need for treatment.
• TS 0 - post-tonsillectomy patients.
• TS 1 implies tonsils hidden within the pillars.
• TS 2 represents tonsils that extend to the pillars.
• TS 3 refers to tonsils that extend beyond the pillars, but not all the way to the
midline,
• TS 4 tonsils (‘‘kissing tonsils’’) reach the midline.
FTP I - the entire uvula, tonsils, and tonsillar pillars.
• FTP II allows visualization of the uvula, but not the tonsils.
• FTP III allows visualization of the soft palate, but not the uvula
• FTP IV allows visualization of the hard palate only
body-mass index (BMI) >40 kg/m(2) or
with BMI >35 kg/m(2) and 1 or more significant comorbid conditions
type II diabetes (T2DM),hypertension, sleep apnea and other respiratory disorders, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease,osteoarthritis, lipid abnormalities, gastrointestinal disorders, or heart disease.
Ikematsu – snoring 1964
Fujita popularised in 1980s
Complications – initially –nasal regurg due to velopharyngeal insufficiency,dryness, discomfort,speech prob,
late – permanent vp insuff, nasopharyngeal stenosis
The techinique of uppp has changed over the time .
Radical uppp is not more effective than conservative (preserve velar muscles ) instead has more complication rate.
Friedman 2,3
Goal is to change the scar contracture tension line in a anterolateral vector
By splitting the soft palate and retracting it anterolaterally,
an effective anterolateral pull is created, which actually continues
to widen the airway as healing and contracture occur. None of the
palatal musculature is resected, in spite of the aggressive palatal shortening,
thereby addressing and minimizing the risk for permanent velopharyngeal
insufficiency (VPI)
1.Exposure of the palatopharyngeus (vertical fibers).
2. Elevation of the palatopharyngeus.
3. Rotation and tunnelling of the palatopharyngeus
toward the hamulus. Or sutures are put from velar muscles and palatopharyngeus
4.Suture suspension and approximation.
Grade 2, 3 …or if uppp and z plasty fails
1-cm portion of the hard palate is removed, and the soft palate is then advanced
and secured medially and laterally in the tensor aponeurosis, which enlarges the
retropalatal region.
minimally invasive, single-step procedure
• useful for mild OSA.
• Polyethylenterephthalat (PET)
• Three rod-shaped implants are inserted in the soft palate.
• The implants themselves and the surrounding scarring induce a stiffening of the soft
palate, reduce snoring sounds.
Developed to reduce pain, cost & morbidity of UPPP , in mild OSA
• Complication – partial implant extrusion
• Advantage – single office visit, minimal morbidity, reduce snoring.
RADIOFREQUENCY TONGUE BASE
ABLATION (RFA)
volumetric reduction in tonguebase
Tissue
465 KHz
coagulation necrosis and healing by scar.
OP setting under LA
• Require multiple treatments to achieve the desired results.
Repose , encore -brands
Permanent suture is passed through the paramedian tongue
musculature along the length of the tongue, through the
tongue base, and then back through the length of the tongue
musculature.
• It is then anchored to the screw to pull the tongue base
anteriorly.
Result in an enlarged retrolingual airway by fixing the major dilators of the
pharyngeal airway forward.
• Usually done along with GA
Medtronic AIRvance
Siesta medical – encore device
Titanium screws near canine on post aspect of mandible with a special drill
Mobilizing the maxilla and mandible to achieve anterior displacement, after intraoral
osteotomy.
• The maxilla and mandible are stabilized with titanium plates in the advanced
position.
Lefort 1 maxillary osteotomy with bilateral saggital split mandibular osteotomy with minimum 1cm advancement
strategies that increase activity in the pharyngeal dilator muscles should be effective for patients who have dysfunction in these muscles.8 Thus, a concept is emerging that personalized medicine may be applied to obstructive sleep apnea on the basis of underlying mechanisms
Results equal to cpap with better adherance.
randomized, therapy-withdrawal trial provide reassurance that the benefits from hypoglossal-nerve stimulation observed by Strollo et al. were real.
Includes a wide variety of procedures that vary in their invasiveness and success
rates.
t/t philosophy – 1.site specific surgery 2.treat to cure 3. staged surgical procedures 4. full pt disclosure of options and risks 5.follow up