When medication fails to bring relief to people with chronic sinusitis, the alternative to open the flow of mucus is usually surgery. The traditional type calls for removing bone and tissue to clear ...

If you’ve ever had a sinus infection, you know that it can be miserable: facial pain and pressure, headaches and post-nasal drip are just a few of the excruciating symptoms. Now imagine that this ...

Paul McBee had to do something: His sinus pressure had built back up, leaving him unable to breathe or sleep. Advertisement Article continues below this ad But the 56-year-old Utica resident didn't ...

The most common symptom of a deviated septum is nasal congestion, with one side of the nose being more congested than the other, along with a hard time breathing. Repeated sinus infections can also be ...

Symptoms of deviated septum may include breathing through one nostril, frequent nosebleeds or sinus infections, or snoring during sleep. Treatment is often not necessary, but surgery may be an option ...

Some people don’t realize that our faces have eight different sinus pockets: in the cheekbones, between the eyes, behind the nose and in the low center of the forehead. If any of these pockets become ...

What Is Septoplasty (Deviated Septum Surgery)? Septoplasty is a nose surgery that straightens the wall of cartilage and bone between your two nostrils. That wall is called your septum, and when it's ...

This is a guest post by Dr. Abhishek Ramadhin, who is doing his rhinology fellowship training in the Sinai Hospital Division of Otolaryngology. Chronic sinusitis is very common in the United States, ...