A recent study illustrates that the results after laser tonsillectomy in recent years provides an overall improvement. This may be due to established centers performing laser surgery and improved knowledge of the procedure.

This study was done to revise the literature regarding laser tonsil operation.

In this study, a systematic analysis was performed in July 2019 searched Medline, Embase and Cochrane record for comparing laser tonsil surgical procedure with other procedures with the terms tonsillotomy, laser and tonsillectomy. For this, total of 14 articles were assessed.

Table 1- % of laser techniques used

Table 2- % of non-laser techniques used

Among the 1133 patients who have undergone surgery, there were 2266 tonsil removals. All the conclusions recommended that the laser procedures are advanced concerning procedure length and intraoperative bleeding. Laser techniques also give unclear or better results about the total healing time, postoperative hemorrhage and pain.

The reevaluation of results of laser surgery in recent years recommends an overall improvement.