Do they have to put you out? Or can this be done with a local pain
kiler? Its seems interesting. It might be very good for people with say
maxillary problems. But what if someone also has polyps?  

We've already discussed in detail,  You might try groups.google.com.

It only applies in a limited range of situations, so you might  be ill-advised
to try to get it specifically because that would take the focus off your
problem into finding the tiny number of surgeons who have expereicene with it.

Some of the surgeons who do use it are probably thinking of it mainly as a
marketing gimmick.

Yes it saves conventional cutting in widening the ostia.    But widening the
ostia is easy and well-done by conventional means, so is saving a little
cutting worth the unknowns of a new procedure?   New procedures often have
problems that take years to show up.

Anyway widenening the ostia is just one part of what is often needed in sinus
surgery, and not the most difficult part anyway....

I suspect  that the ABC news coverage was a result of promotional efforts by
Acclarant.

We've discussed it here before--search the Google archive.  Its purpose
is to widen the ostia (sinus ducts) without a scalpel.  That's nice, but
there are a lot of sinus problems that can't be fixed that way.

In my first sinus surgery, my septum was actually severely deviated into
a jog and I had a lot of diseased sinus linings that had to be scraped.
 In my second sinus surgery, I had a mucocele in one of my left
ethmoids that just had to be removed.  Just widening the ostia wouldn't
have helped me.

And I'm not alone.  Over the years, we've had a lot of sinus surgery
patients come thru this NG, and many of them have reported they needed
more extensive surgery than just widening the ostia.