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 ...

Diagnosis of chronic sinusitis may be extremely difficult because patients commonly have vague symptoms. Unless sinusitis is suspected as a possible cause of symptoms, it may go undiagnosed. As a ...

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 ...

There are 4 sets of sinuses ordinarily present in humans, but congenital absence or hypoplasia of one or more sinus cavities is not uncommon. The maxillary and ethmoidal sinuses form during the third ...

Everyone’s heard it at least once — someone sniffles before apologetically declaring, excuse my sinuses, often with a weak smile asking for understanding. In fact, plenty of us have probably said the ...

The function of the paranasal sinuses is not clear, but theories include humidification and warming of inspired air, lightening of the skull, improvement of vocal resonance, absorption of shock to the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Acute sinusitis is inflammation of mucosa lining of one or more paranasal sinuses. In children, most cases begin ...