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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / August 2006Is a sinus lift (maxillary) reversible?
OK I have searched everywhere and can't find an answer to this. Is a sinus lift with bone graft, done to support on implant on a back molar, reversible in any way? If it 'failed' would the sinus membrane drop back down on its own? any comments greatly appreciated. why would you want it to be reversable surgically???? if you never get the implant put in it is possible that over time the sinus cavity will enlarge again. usually maxillary sinus cavity enlarges on opposite side of patients with collapsed nostril. ie if nostril is collapsed on the right the left sinus cavity will be larger to compensate. > OK I have searched everywhere and can't find an answer to this. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > any comments greatly appreciated. Thanks for your comments. Apparently the surgeon who did this and I had differing understandings of the phrase "whatever you do, do nothing that involves the sinuses". I was not expecting this procedure to be done in the first place and I have a professional voice. Therefore I wanted to know what the feasibility of "reversing" the lift were. The research on results of this procedure on the professional voice seem to indicate that there no effects, but they based on a very small sample (4 patients) that is not broken down by type of voice use or type of voice. So as a singer, I would opted to not have undergone this particular procedure altogether! I do not understand the reference to the collapsed nostril however. Desde > why would you want it to be reversable surgically???? > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > > > any comments greatly appreciated. >Thanks for your comments. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >I do not understand the reference to the collapsed nostril however. The nostril and the sinus have no mutual correlation other than the air that passes by. >Desde > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> > >> > any comments greatly appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David A. King, D.M.D. Diplomate, American Board of OMS Fellow, American Association of OMS HTTP://WWW.DEOMFS.COM Not sure what you mean by "mutual correlation". Its just a clinical observation from examining many panorex films and their correlated patients (especially those with collapsed septums and unilateral constricted nostrils) which happens makes sense at least to me. > The nostril and the sinus have no mutual correlation other than the > air that passes by. >Not sure what you mean by "mutual correlation". Its just a clinical >observation from examining many panorex films and their correlated >patients (especially those with collapsed septums and unilateral >constricted nostrils) which happens makes sense at least to me. Deviated septums often lead to enlarged turbinates away from the side the septum is leaning. The sinuses will enlarge without any outside influence. My point was no correlation exists, AFAIK, between the size of the nares and the size of the maxillary sinus. >> The nostril and the sinus have no mutual correlation other than the >> air that passes by. I think you did not understand what I meant and we are saying the exact same thing. > >Not sure what you mean by "mutual correlation". Its just a clinical > >observation from examining many panorex films and their correlated [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >> The nostril and the sinus have no mutual correlation other than the > >> air that passes by. Not sure what you mean by "mutual correlation". Its just a clinical observation from examining many panorex films and their correlated patients (especially those with collapsed septums and unilateral constricted nostrils) which happens makes sense at least to me. > The nostril and the sinus have no mutual correlation other than the > air that passes by. Not sure what you mean by "mutual correlation". Its just a clinical observation from examining many panorex films and their correlated patients (especially those with collapsed septums and unilateral constricted nostrils) which happens makes sense at least to me. > The nostril and the sinus have no mutual correlation other than the > air that passes by. > Thanks for your comments. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > have a professional voice. Therefore I wanted to know what the > feasibility of "reversing" the lift were. How has the surgery it affected your voice? Weaker? Different quality? Loss of range? >> Thanks for your comments. >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Weaker? Different quality? Loss of range? The likelyhood of voice changes is extremely small if not non-existent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David A. King, D.M.D. Diplomate, American Board of OMS Fellow, American Association of OMS HTTP://WWW.DEOMFS.COM Thanks Dave, I was always worried that "nice nares ..." was a compliment that I di not want ...... -- Joel34 I am really surprised the Joel did not comment about "Is a sinus lift (mandibular) reversible?"..... Ha! Dr Abu ====================================== > Thanks Dave, > > I was always worried that "nice nares ..." was a compliment that I did > not want ....... |
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