The patient, a young child, is unconscious and positioned on the table. Her eyes and hair are covered. First, the procedures for dissection of the right tonsil are shown. Her mouth is held open and her tongue held out of the mouth. The throat is dried using swabs. The capsule is exposed. The tonsil is separated by gauze dissection. The posterior pillar is exposed and separated. Gauze is applied to control bleeding from the fossae. An illustration shows the nutrient tonsillar vessel running in lingual ligament and supplying the tonsil. It also shows the paratonsillar vessel draining the soft palate adherent to the tonsillar capsule, but not draining the tonsil. The paratonsillar vessel lies in the tonsillar bed after separation from the tonsil. When the paratonsillar vessel is torn, it hangs free in the mouth.