>>12872287you're an absolute fucking retard, the MMA surgery is essentially a cure for sleep apnoea and is performed on people that have severe sleep apnoea that doesn't resolve with CPAP and other interventions alone. get the fuck off this board, your low IQ is reducing the quality
sleep apnoea can be caused by multiple things, but by far the most important factor is skeletal deficiencies. soft tissue excess can exacerbate this, but when a person has a robust jaw, a robust maxilla (the palate is the floor of the nasal cavity, hence why surgically assisted palate expansion reduces apnoea-hypopnoea indices) and mandible, the tendency for developing sleep apnoea is extremely low unless they decide to balloon up to 400lbs, and even then, it might not be as severe as some of the cases which are in fact underweight, presenting with clear skeletal deficiencies.
since you're a fucking idiot, I'll make an analogy so it's easier. imagine you have a room. you have a big room if your jaw is robust, and a smaller room if your jaw is tiny. now, of course, if you start stuffing things in that room, it might start to get cramped, but which room is gonna get cramped first? the small one nigger, this is why young adults, not overweight, not having many soft tissue excesses, can present with sleep-disordered breathing.
I agree with OP, MMA and maxillary expansion surgeries should be performed more routinely on these patients. also most modern sleep studies are shit because they don't count RERAs and other sleep parameters which can indicate upper airway resistance, leading to OSA-like symptoms, but not a condition severe enough to qualify as sleep apnoea.
