Chronic sinusitis is a condition where a patient has a persistent sinus infection for greater than 3 months that fails to resolve with medical therapy.
It's truly a miserable condition where the patient feels constantly congested and sick for months.
They may get some relief with antibiotics and allergy therapy but the symptoms rapidly return after the therapy is complete.
There has typically been no alternative for these patients in the past except continuing courses of medical therapy or surgical therapy requiring a general anesthetic.
Now there is a new state of the art technique called balloon sinuplasty that works to gently dilate the natural sinus outflow tracts to relieve the chronic infection.
This procedure can be performed with sedation in the office setting with no discomfort.
There is also no downtime as patients can return to work right away.
Chronic sinusitis sufferers now have a simple alternative to regain their normal life.
Daniel Slaughter, MD
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