Tonsils, everyone is born with them, but what do they do? “Nobody really knows exactly how they work or what their function is,” says Dr. Ryan Winters, a board-certified Otolaryngologist Head and Neck ...

Based on: The Tonsils — Faucial, Lingual, and Pharyngeal. With Some Account of the Posterior and Lateral Pharyngeal Nodules. By Harry A. Barnes, M.D., Instructor in Laryngology, Harvard Medical School ...

The most common cause is massively enlarged tonsils and adenoids. Diagnosis can be made watching the child’s sleep patterns such as gasping breath, restlessness, bed wetting, failure to grow, ...

PORTSMOUTH — Surgery to remove tonsils used to be almost a rite of passage and was done routinely on children. That's no longer the case. And while there are benefits to having the surgery done as an ...