Next to the excision of enlargend tonsils a “snoring operation” in the pharynx is carried out successfully in the last years, which tightend the soft palate with excision of the uvula. This intervention can be carried out with special surgical instruments or a laser, in some cases in ambulant treatment. In other cases other aids can be used, e.g. a nose plaster, the sewing in of a tennis ball into the back part of the pyjamas or the adjustment of a palate brace or brace which the patients wears during night to place the mandibula forward.
