Can simple snoring be cured?

Patient: Hello, Dr. Yu! I have been snoring for many years and it has seriously disturbed my life. In September of last year and this year, I had sleep monitoring done in Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital. But the conclusion was simple snoring. The doctor said it could be caused by the fact that I am too thin and my bone structure is too small. I would like to receive low temperature plasma surgery to cure snoring in the near future, but, I don’t know if it can be cured. Because of my job, I’ve been traveling all over the place, and I haven’t had time to see a doctor properly. I wonder if I can have the surgery on weekends? Thanks a lot. I am really anxious. Yu Bin, ENT, Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Treatment of simple snoring is mainly to solve the problem of loud snoring, and most of the source of snoring is from the vibration of the soft palate during sleep, as long as you can increase the hardness and strength of the soft palate, you can achieve the purpose of reducing snoring. Low temperature plasma perforation under soft palate can ablate part of the submucosal tissues of soft palate very well, form a hard fiber scar under the mucous membrane, reduce the relaxation of soft palate, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing the snoring, the surgery is minimally invasive, with little damage to the normal tissues, without affecting the normal swallowing and speaking function, and can be repeated, which is the better means of treatment for snoring at present.