This resulted in a concern within the medical community that too many tonsillectomies were being performed unnecessarily.
Today, there are guidelines for performing a tonsillectomy that should be met before surgery is performed.
While tonsillitis does make your throat hurt, a sore throat isnt necessarily tonsillitis.
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With tonsillitis at least one of the palatine tonsils are swollen and infected.
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