Maxillary sinus floor elevation and augmentation is a surgical procedure developed to increase bone volume in the atrophic posterior maxilla, thereby facilitating the precise placement of dental ...

The maxillary sinuses are air-filled cavities that are located just above the back portion of the maxilla or upper jaw. By lifting the sinus and grafting bone in between, there’s more bone for a ...

Maxillary sinuses: These large, paired sinuses are behind the cheekbones on either side of the nose. They are pyramid-shaped and are the largest sinuses in the head. Without the sinuses, a person ...

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).

Zdenek Pelikan, M.D., Ph.D., of Allergy Research Foundation, Breda, the Netherlands, studied 71 patients with chronic maxillary sinus disease and 16 control individuals with allergic rhinitis but ...

In a study comparing Peregrine to rigid endoscopes, Peregrine was able to view 100 percent of the frontal and sphenoid sinuses and 97.1 percent of the maxillary sinus compared to 45.3 percent, 53. ...