Patient: I started snoring in 1992 when I was in high school and never stopped. 06, I went to Nanjing Military General Hospital for examination and had an instrument test. It was diagnosed as severe sleep apnea syndrome. At that time, the doctor said that my tonsils were enlarged by two degrees and I should sleep with a ventilator or have my tonsils surgically removed and my tongue root made thinner. The total cost was over 20,000. I didn’t use a ventilator and I didn’t undergo surgery. I want to have the surgery in a nearby area (Anhui, Jiangsu), can you recommend a hospital for me; also, the cost should not be too high, my affordability is limited. Yu Bin, Department of Otolaryngology, Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The causes of snoring are many, and the most common one is snoring caused by narrowing or obstruction of the upper airway. In general: snoring treatment is generally divided into two kinds of conservative treatment and surgical treatment. Drugs, weight loss, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and tongue rest are all conservative treatment options. Some people with obesity and short neck have narrower upper airways than normal people and are prone to snoring, while some others snore due to bad sleeping posture. For such cases, it is recommended that they lose weight, quit smoking and drinking, change bad sleeping posture, or wear a ventilator during sleep. Those patients who have sleep apnea due to narrowing and obstruction of the upper airway caused by lesions in the mouth, pharynx, larynx, nose, tongue muscle, soft palate and uvula need to be solved by surgery. Patient: I would also like to consult you if I should go back to the hospital for a checkup? Then you can decide on the option of surgery. Is the surgical cure 100%? There is no risk, right? The focus should be on sleep breathing monitoring to see the severity of snoring and fiberoptic nasopharyngoscopy to see which section of the upper airway is blocked. The success rate of various surgical methods is not the same, and it is very good to reach 70%. As long as it is a surgical procedure, there will be risks and unexpected situations.