Hyoid suspension surgery is less invasive than the more widely used genioglossus advancement with hyoid myotomy. |
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Patients in both groups had undergone cricopharyngeal myotomy and unilateral pharyngeal neurectomy. |
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The hyoid myotomy operation involves moving the hyoid bone forward, detaching the muscles and fixating the hyoid bone to the thyroid cartilage with non-resorbable sutures. |
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