The maxillary sinus is frequently affected by a range of pathologies that span from inflammatory conditions, such as sinusitis of odontogenic origin, to complications arising from dental interventions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sinus infections (also known as sinusitis) strike more than 30 million Americans each year. And if you’re one of them, you’re ...

Maxillary sinus augmentation remains a cornerstone intervention for addressing insufficient bone height in the posterior maxilla prior to dental implant placement. Techniques such as the lateral ...

Imaging, specifically cone-beam CT (CBCT), helped clinicians remove an ectopic third molar and an infected cyst from a patient's maxillary sinus, which is a rare site for a tooth to erupt, according ...

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) helped identify a rare case of a dental implant moving into a man's right ethmoidal sinus in a recent case report, published online on May 27 in Heliyon. An anatomical variant ...

A careful history looking for the subtle symptoms of sinusitis, (as reviewed in the section on Clinical Presentation), must always be the starting point for diagnosing sinusitis. The physical ...

No treatment seems to be the best approach to acute maxillary sinusitis. A head-to-head comparison found placebos just as effective as a commonly prescribed antibiotic and topical steroids used alone ...

A fungal ball is a mass that develops in your sinuses after you’ve breathed in fungal spores. Medications cannot treat it, but a doctor can surgically remove it. Sinus fungal balls are a type of ...

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