Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis:Differential Diagnosis and Genesis
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Oto-Laryngologica
- Vol. 93 (1-6) , 147-150
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00016488209130865
Abstract
By a careful ENT and oral examination of 111 patients with suspected chronic maxillary sinusitis, the diagnosis was verified in only 56% (62/111). In 29 of these 62 patients (47%) a relation to dental infections was found, periodontitis being as frequent as apical granulomas. In 61 % of the patients, in whom the diagnosis chronic maxillary sinusitis could not be verified, dental infections and/or myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome (MPD) were the most common and likely cause of the symptoms. A careful oral examination including dental radiographs is thus important in patients with chronic maxillary sinusitis.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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