What is sinus surgery anyway? Sinus surgery is surgical treatment to ventilate the obstructed air pockets within the facial bones. This includes the cheek sinuses, the forehead sinuses, the sinuses between the eyes and a sinus behind the eyes. Sinus surgery has gone through many evolutions over the past 50 years. Before nasal endoscopes and […]
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Cognitive Testing to Supplement Hearing Test in the Elderly. Get Checked Now.
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Mar
Mar
Much data much research in the past 10-20 years in the hearing loss world has focused around how hearing loss can actually worsen early cognitive decline. We all see patients who are elderly have significant disabling dementia. At this point it simply too late for hearing aids to do much good. However often acting earlier, […]
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Dec
Dec
“I usually feel ok, but I still keep getting sick too often” Minor, early sinus infections are often called “acute sinusitis“. Usually these infections last 10 days or less and are usually thought of as being caused by viruses rather than bacteria. Sinus infections lasting longer than 10 days or infections that tend to worsen […]
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Dec
Dec
What is nasal valve collapse? The nasal valve is a complex structure on the anterior part of the nose. It offers some resistance to airflow intake. This measured resistance is needed for the normal functioning of the pulmonary system. However, when there is too much resistance, nasal obstruction occurs and this compromises breathing. It is […]
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Nov
Nov
Acute sinusitis is on the rise again this time of year. The common prescription for an antibiotic and ‘steroid pack’ is probably WAY overdone. Most sinus infections start as a virus, usually a common respiratory virus causing symptoms for around a week before resolving. The unlucky of us will then get a secondary bacterial infection […]
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Cryoablation Treatment for Non-Allergic Nasal Drip
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Oct
Oct
Beginning in 2021, centers for Medicare and Medicaid services have approved a treatment for nonallergic rhinitis. Nonallergic rhinitis can cause chronic runny nose or chronic postnasal drip in the absence of allergies. Many patients with nasal allergies might also have a component of nonallergic rhinitis. For decades ENT doctors have been postulating that blockage of […]
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Oct
Oct
Millions of Americans use Neti Pots, or sinus rinse bottles, or other reusable vessels to irrigate their noses and sinuses. Medical journal reports over the years have surfaced showing these rinses may be harmful, carry bacteria (or worse!) and have even been linked to death. One of the earlier studies from Laryngoscope showed after six […]
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Oct
Oct
The problem with chronic sinus infections is that we don’t seem to have an answer as to “why”. To be totally accurate we seem to have all kinds of answers, too many answers even. Readers: be skeptical when doctors have a lot of answers for something, it probably means they really don’t know. Those who […]
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Sep
Sep
On Friday Sep 17th 2021 The FDA Advisory Panel made new recommendations about a third Pfizer COVID shot. There was UNANIMOUS recommendation that those aged 65 and older be offered a third dose at 6 months following their second dose. There was also UNANIMOUS recommendation that those at high risk of severe COVID-19, and those […]
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Sep
Sep
A whooshing, pulsating, or swooshing sound in the ear is called pulsatile tinnitus and usually just affects one side. Often this may sound like a heartbeat in your ear – and often you are in fact hearing your heartbeat or turbulent blood flow through the vessels that passed through your skull near your ear. These […]