The good news is, if you're snoring, you're still breathing. You might not be breathing well, but you are still breathing.
The bad news is, long term snoring will damage your airway, which could even cause sleep apnea in the long run.
You can (usually) treat snoring with CPAP, which is reasonably easy to do and low pressure settings will probably do the trick (compared to full blown apnea where more pressure might be required). Depending on what causes the snoring (flappy uvula, nasal congestion, whatever), different treatment options might be available.
What you probably want is a "sleep endoscopy". This is where they sedate you and look inside your airway as you take a nap. This can help doctors pinpoint the root cause of the snoring, which might set you up for a fix ...
A sleep test diagnoses sleep apnea. DISE can give clues, but Dr Kasey Li is against it saying it gives a lot of false positives from his experience. Home test + polysomnography is his standard, along with using his experience to review your CBCT scans
False positives? If you snore, you snore. All DISE is going to do is help figure out what's causing the snoring. I don't know this Dr Li, but you're making them sound like they're part of a cult.
I defer to his expertise for a lot as he's considered one of the top experts in sleep apnea surgery in the world. He's had more cases for example on MMA than aggregate studies in the literature
He considers DISE to show collapse that would not normally occur. Because under dise you are heavily sedated. Like after drinking alcohol, the airway is not the same as a normal state.
The bad news is, long term snoring will damage your airway, which could even cause sleep apnea in the long run.
You can (usually) treat snoring with CPAP, which is reasonably easy to do and low pressure settings will probably do the trick (compared to full blown apnea where more pressure might be required). Depending on what causes the snoring (flappy uvula, nasal congestion, whatever), different treatment options might be available.
What you probably want is a "sleep endoscopy". This is where they sedate you and look inside your airway as you take a nap. This can help doctors pinpoint the root cause of the snoring, which might set you up for a fix ...