This book offers a detailed description of the main barbed pharyngoplasty techniques for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.  These innovative techniques have spread in recent years and are considered as a validated alternative to the classic respective techniques.

The book covers the barbed pharyngoplasty selection criteria, the surgical technique, and discusses the post-operative results. It also includes some chapters on the experience of surgical sleep centers in various parts of the world.

Written by leading experts in the field of sleep surgery, this book will be interesting for ENT specialists, oral surgeons, maxillo-facial surgeons, plastic surgeons, sleep doctors, neurologists and pneumologists.

Preface

Introduction
The evolution of Palate Surgery for SDB
The new generation of palatoplasties
Barbed Sutures Technology
Overview of Barbed Suture in non  ENT Surgery
Classification of Barbed Suture Palate Procedures
Palate Anatomy Barbed Related
Barbed Snore Surgery: new philosophy in Palate-Oropharynx Procedures
Barbed Reposition Pharyngoplasty (BRP)
Barbed Anterior Pharyngoplasty
Barbed Functional expansion pharyngoplasty
Barbed suspension pharyngoplasty
Technical update of barbed pharyngoplasty for retropalatal obstruction
Barbed pharyngoplasties: experiences in the world
Future Perspectives.