[Surgical treatment of chronic snoring. Description and indications]

Chronic rhonchopathy groups all clinical forms of a disease having a common functional sign: snoring. Surgical treatments form part of a therapeutic strategy which includes medical treatment, essentially reduction in body weight, and nocturnal respiratory prosthetic treatments, essentially continuous positive pressure respiration. First intention surgery is an uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPP) with or without tonsillectomy. In the severe forms of chronic rhonchopathy, after failure of UPP, major surgery:protrusion mandibular osteotomy or reduction glossectomy can be associated with the other treatments.