11. Tonsillectomy is one of the most common major operations performed on children.12. Tonsillectomy is also sometimes performed on those who suffer chronically from tonsilloliths.13. In the early 1900s, adenoidectomies began to be routinely combined with tonsillectomy . 14. Billings thus popularized intervention by tonsillectomy and tooth extraction. 15. On 22 June 2007, it was announced that he needed a tonsillectomy . 16. Crosby persuaded Lang to see a doctor and the doctor advised a tonsillectomy . 17. There are about 13, 000 tonsillectomies performed in New York State each year. 18. The couple from Cordele had come to Atlanta for Reid Horne's tonsillectomy . 19. Tonsillectomy is prescribed most often for young children with enlarged tonsils that obstruct breathing.20. In 1933, at the age of thirty, Lang died following a tonsillectomy .
