There’s a laser surgical procedure to relief snoring called laser assisted uvulopalatopharyngoplasty or LAUP.
Here’s how it works:
The objective of the surgery is to widen your air passage to avoid obstruction during sleep. To widen your airway, the surgeon will use the laser on multiple throat tissues (including uvula and pharynx). Incisions are made on the soft palate of each side of your uvula using C02 laser.
Side effects from LAUP are severe throat pain and scar tissue development which may lead to another snore inducing obstruction in the throat. The former albeit painful, is not really that big of a deal. The real issue lies with the possible development of scar tissue caused by the C02 laser incisions. If a scar tissue forms in the throat, you can bet that another obstruction would occur causing you to snore even louder than before!
According to Wikipedia, presently, laser surgery on pharynx or uvula has not been approved by the American Medical Association.
