> 7 deaths in 20 years out of who knows how many hundreds of thousands if anything is a testament to how safe the procedure is. That's still seven deaths too m

> 7 deaths in 20 years out of who knows how many hundreds of thousands if anything is a testament to how safe the procedure is. That's still seven deaths too many for a surgery (without anesthetics!) which has no medical necessity. Tonsillectomy is also a very safe procedure, yet we don't just do them willy-nilly because any form of surgery carries its own risk, no matter how small.