Don Brady had his surgery done by Dr. Kennedy so I'm sure he will give
you some positive feedback later.  I'm having to go out of town so I
just wanted to give you a quick response.   I thought what was left of
my ethmoids was giving me my problems so I sent my CT scans to him for
review.  All I ever heard back was that I wasn't a candidate for
surgery at that time.  I assume he meant the ethmoids.  Don can tell
you more, but his main idea, I think, is that there is infection in the
ethmoids and removing the bony structures helps.  I was impressed that
I was able to send my scans and he looked at them for free.   That was
a year ago, so I don't know if he still does that, but you could call
his office and find out.  It took about a month to get a response and
he did send the scans back.  I don't know the number, but am sure you
can find it on the internet.

kathyw

I had wanted to see Dr. Kennedy myself, but he's not in my medical
insurance network.

I had two very negative experiences with Dr. Kennedy, and I would not
recommend him.  Around 1990, I suffered from chronic inflammation in
my throat, frequent sore throats, chronic unremmiting headaches,
terrible facial pain, swollen tonsils. The problem was only relieved
by high does IV antibiotic therapy.  My father was a physician (now
deceased) felt it was obvious that my sinuses were infected, and the
bony structures in in the ethmoid region in particular.  Dr. Kennedy,
a non-thinker in my opinion, took a look at my CT scan and told me
that I was completely normal and to go on my way, that all my symptoms
were likely psychosomatic.  (I am sure the puss coming from my sinuses
was psychosomatic)   I couldnt find anyone locally to do ethmoid
surgery, and I depended on him to go ahead and do it.  Unfortunately,
my CT scan was too close to normal.  What a great thinker he was/is.

A few years later, I had a repeat CT scan, and they found polyps in my
anterior ethmoids bilaterally.  A local physician removed my anterior
ethmoids, and I had some relief from my symptoms.  Because only my
anteriors were removed, the surgery was done with a local anesthesia,
and i had no problems.

Years later, around 2000, I had another CT scan to see if they could
find anything abnormal to get more surgery.  Unfortunately, the CT
scan was too close to normal to justify surgery on the remaining
ethmoids.  So i sent the CT scans and history to Dr. Kennedy.  His
secretary contacted me a week later.  Dr. Kennedy could not help me.
Fortunately, my general internist recommended a local ENT that might
help, Dr. Daniel Jacob.  I thought it would be a complete waste of
time, but then, i will give it a try.  Wow, what a difference.  He
looked at my CT scans, and took a thorough history in about half an
hour.  Then he shocked me.  Instead of saying he could do nothing, he
actually said "Edward, there are two camps in the ENT field.  In the
first camp, if you have a normal CT scan, then you do nothing.  In the
second camp, if you have every symptom of severe ethmoid disease,
except you dont have gross abnormality on your CT scan, you go ahead
and remove as much ethmoid tissue as possible.  I am in the second
camp".  Wow, I actually found an ENT who can think out of the box to
solve problems.  To make a long story short, he did an ethmoidectomy a
few weeks later, and it was amazing how much better i felt.  A year
later, he did another surgery to remove all remaining ethmoid tissue
(he could not get to all the posterior ethomiods in the first
operation, because its so dangerous) and also opened up the ostia to
the maxillaries a little.

Today, I live with a chronic infection of my sphenoidal sinuses, which
is a bone infection, which is inoperable.  If Dr. Kennedy had taken my
complaint seriously and done aggressive surgery, the initial infection
would not have spread, and I would not have any sinus problems.  Its
important to remove any bone infection immediately by surgery and not
mess around in my opinion.  If Dr. Kennedy had acted 15 years ago, I
dont think that i would have problems now due to spreading of the
infection.

My philosophy about CT scans: If you wait until your symptoms progress
to the point that you have an abnormal CT, then you have waited too
long for surgery.  (One local ENT wanted to wait for the disease to
progress to the point where my CT scan was abnormal, then he would
operate.  Ugh, this makes no sense morons)

My thought is that local ENT doctors can be much better than going to
a famous published doctor.  Many of these academic ENT doctors cannot
think out of the box to solve problems, and do medicine by recipe (if
A, then B).  If you have a problem that is not exactly described in a
textbook, you are totally screwed.  They want you out of their office
because they dont have time to solve a problem they havent seen
before.  I certainly was screwed.

By the way, I looked at all Dr. Kennedy's publications, and i am not
impressed with his "research".  BTW,  I am a biochemist, and I own a
small biotech company here in New Orleans.  If you need an excellent
ENT surgeon, I would recommend Dr. Daniel Jacob in New Orleans.  He
uses instatrack for all his endoscopic procedures.

I had heard that he was one of the best and made an appt with his group.
spent a few minutes with a dr. chui who told me he could do nothing for me
surgically and that i should follow up with an allergist.  

allergy testing yielded faintly positives.

subsequent CT scan showed that i am almost completly stuffed in my left
maxillary:

[i]On the current examination, there is near complete opacification of
the
left maxillary sinus, with soft tissue extending into the surgically
created ostium, contiguous with soft tissue density within the left
ethmoid sinuses.
Moderate mucosal thickening is demonstrated involving the floor and
posterior aspect of the left frontal sinus.  There is mild mucosal
thickening involving the floor of the right frontal sinus.
Mild mucousal thickening and opacification of the right ethmoid
sinus.[/i]

and a subsequent ENT and an I-D dr both recommended that i go back there
but i really cant afford these do-nothing visits.  i have decided that i
need to make do for the next few years--expenses are high.

good luck