One in four people suffer from snoring. Snoring is not harmful for your health unless you also have apnoea. Apnoea is a condition when you stop breathing for short periods of time in your sleep.
Snoring can be caused by many things, like being overweight, smoking, drinking alcohol, having a blocked nose or tonsillitis. Snoring surgery is when some of the soft tissue at the back of your mouth, or your tonsils is removed to clear up some space and help you with your snoring.
There is limited evidence from research to show that snoring surgery works well and solves the problem. We recommend that doctors prescribe other things to treat your snoring, like losing weight, stopping smoking, drinking less alcohol, or treating your blocked nose.