Talk:Tonsillectomy

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-What's the source on the tonsils growing back after removal? That's really very interesting. --FMephit 05:11, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I think that's a confusion of the tonsils with the adenoids. The adenoids can grow back after an adenotomy, IIRC, but for sources on that, STFW... Dabljuh 21:42, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Citation concerns 2 Pictures 3 Post-Surgery and Revovery 4 Side effects 5 Tonsillolith?

[edit] Citation concerns

The section on Methods of Tonsil Removal was lifted wholesale from this site (http://www.entnet.org/KidsENT/tonsil_procedures.cfm) listed in the External Links section without appropriate citation. Is this OK?

203.212.59.211 11:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

I personally don't think that the current picture of the article is very useful unless we have a "before" picture to go with it. Maybe someone who has very swollen tonsils could take a picture of them before they have them taken out and add them to the article. I think that would greatly improve the visual aspect of the article. --Emery 23:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Post-Surgery and Revovery

It would be help to add some information regarding after surgery recommendations for the patient and what to expect 10-15 days later.

Ryan Martin —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.186.208.223 (talk) 00:59, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Side effects

How about a section on side effects and results? I'd be interested to know if removal of tonsils has been correlated either positively or negatively with weight gain. 69.143.26.71 03:58, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree, I would like to request someone with more expertise to add material to this page, describing what the negative impacts of tonsilectomy are. The pages on tonsils and palatine tonsils say that the tonsils play a role in helping the immune system fight off upper respiratory-tract infections. I am sure this has been studied!!! This material is really critical on this page. Cazort (talk) 22:29, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tonsillolith?

Should information about the tonsillolith be in the section about reasons for removal? I know some people do it just to stop it from happening, and I may have it done too. Any ideas?

Montymintypie (talk) 08:38, 15 May 2008 (UTC)