After a tonsillectomy, thick, yellow-white scabs will form. These scabs are part of the healing process. Tonsillectomy scabs typically last between 5 and 10 days after surgery. The scabs usually fall ...
The NHS undertakes 47,000 tonsillectomies each year, but was recently a moratorium on them because of fears that surgical instruments might spread the brain disease CJD. Here, Genevieve Wells, an ...