Imaging, specifically cone-beam CT, 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 to a ...

Middle Meatal Antrostomy: A surgical technique to enlarge the maxillary sinus drainage pathway via the middle meatus, facilitating the removal of polyps and improving sinus ventilation.

Although the predominant symptoms and disease are often in the maxillary or frontal sinus, ... a middle meatal antrostomy is created with a backbiting forceps (Fig. 5).

Surgery for sinus disease is useful for those who fail ... is a mass in the maxillary sinus such as tumor or osteoma ... from the middle meatus into the sinus through the inferior antrostomy.

Mucocoeles are common, expansile cyst-like lesions affecting the paranasal sinuses. 1 The majority occur in the frontal sinus, followed by ethmoid sinus, maxillary sinus, and sphenoid sinus. They ...