NightLase — Laser Snoring Reduction

Snoring is produced by the vibration of relaxed soft tissue in the upper airway — primarily the soft palate, uvula, tonsillar pillars, and posterior tongue — during sleep, when muscle tone decreases and the airway narrows. Conventional approaches range from positional therapy and mandibular advancement devices to surgical uvulopalatoplasty (UPPP), each with significant limitations in efficacy, tolerability, or invasiveness.

NightLase (Fotona) applies non-ablative Er:YAG laser energy to the mucosal surfaces of the soft palate and uvula via an intra-oral handpiece. The SMOOTH mode pulses heat the submucosal collagen to a thermal contraction threshold without burning the mucosal surface, causing the palatal tissue to contract, stiffen, and reduce in surface area — thereby reducing the vibration amplitude responsible for snoring sounds. Over subsequent weeks, new collagen…

At Eva Clinic, the NightLase session begins with the client seated in a treatment chair with the mouth open; no anaesthesia is required as the SMOOTH mode heating is perceived as mild warmth rather than pain. MUDr. Chovančíková uses the intra-oral handpiece to deliver overlapping passes across the posterior palate and uvula, with each pass lasting 1–2 seconds at low fluence — the cumulative thermal dose achieves the desired collagen stimulation without…