Rehabilitation of the severely resorbed maxilla poses a difficult challenge, for both restorative and surgical colleagues, as the typically large maxillary sinuses in this group of patients ...

The maxilla is a bone which helps to make up the skull. It is specifically located in the mid face, forms the upper jaw, separates the nasal and oral cavities, and contains the maxillary sinuses ...

The maxillary sinus is typically approached by a sublabial incision (Caldwell-Luc procedure), and the ethmoid by an incision on the side of the nose (external ethmoidectomy).

Twenty-five percent of all patients had unilateral sinusitis. The most common sinuses involved in patients with fungal sinusitis were the maxillary sinuses (100%) and the ethmoidal sinuses (60%).

Stages, types and grades of nasal and paranasal sinus cancer The stage of nasal and paranasal sinus cancer tells you how big it is and whether it has spread. There are different ways of staging nasal ...

This X-ray of a human skull highlights the main nasal cavity (orange) and the sinuses: frontal (pink), ethmoid (yellow), maxillary (green) and sphenoid (purple). Asian apes do not have frontal or ...

In 2002 study co-author Hack and his team were dissecting a cadaver when they discovered that the back wall of the maxillary sinus was much thinner—and therefore more flexible—than described ...