A 49-year-old woman in Nevada developed foreign body (FB) sinusitis after amalgam restorative material moved from a tooth in her upper jaw into the paranasal sinuses. The case report was published ...
The patient’s score on the SNOT-22 questionnaire was 42, indicating a moderate-to-severe impact on her quality of life. Physical examination showed polypoid mucosal changes within the middle meatus ...
Cone-beam CT (CBCT) helped researchers from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand identify a relationship between severe periodontal bone loss and mucosal thickening of the maxillary sinus (Journal of ...
The paranasal sinuses are small, air-filled cavities, located within the bony structures of the face, which communicate with the nasal space via small openings (ostia). Sinusitis occurs as a result of ...
This patient had a history of fleeting arthralgia, and he had an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (83 [normal 1–13] mm/hr). A computed tomography scan of the paranasal sinuses (Figure 1) showed ...