Early detection and initiation of treatment can improve survival rates. The outcome depends on the ‘stage’ of the cancer. Staging is the process of finding out the extent to which the cancer has ...

In the early stages of the disease, symptoms may be totally absent. Another practical problem that makes an early detection difficult is that, symptoms if present are not specific. As mentioned ...

Zygomatic implants may be considered as an alternative to bone augmentation procedures in the management of severe maxillary atrophy. The zygomatic implant placement procedure does not require any ...

The maxillary sinuses, those pouches on either side of the human nose, have a purpose after all: They act as cushions to allow noses to assume different shapes. A new study explains the relationship ...

Sinusitis occurs as a result of obstruction of the osteomeatal unit, which is located in the vicinity of the maxillary sinus ostium (Fig. 1). Because of obstruction, mucus accumulates inside the sinus ...

Nasal cavity and paranasal cancers are a relatively rare type of head and neck cancer. In fact, they occur in less than 3 percent of head and neck cancers, says Dr. Richard Bakst, assistant professor ...

Abbad Toma explains how to identify complications before going ahead with dental implant surgery, plus how to manage and ...

The maxillary sinuses of 20 patients (median age, 15 years) with cystic fibrosis were examined with ultrasound, radiography, and transantral sinus aspiration (14 bilateral and six unilateral for a ...

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) helped identify a rare case of a dental implant moving into a man's right ethmoidal sinus in a recent case report, published online on May 27 in Heliyon. An anatomical variant ...