In my case snoring doesn't seem to wake me up as I almost always sleep well. My wife says I'm talented because I even snore while sleeping on my stomach, which is where I spend most of the night sleeping. I went to the Dr on behalf of my wife, and he looked into the back of my mouth and said there's plenty of extra material to remove but it would first require a sleep study and a sleep study required not being able to sleep well at night *wink* *wink*. He said then they would want to try the cpap machine first and since I don't sleep on my back that isn't going to play. He said after the cpap then they would do the surgery by removing all kinds of shit out of the top and back of my mouth.
I did ask him what the surgery would be out of pocket skipping all the bullshit in between and he said around $6000-$7000 so I said lets get it scheduled then. Then he said, well there's no guarantee it will work so I said fuck it the wife can wear ear plugs.