[An analysis of the late treatment results in patients with odontogenic perforated maxillary sinusitis].

The authors analyze the results of sparing sinusotomy in 685 patients with chronic odontogenic perforative sinusitis. This effective method helped appreciably reduce the incidence of complications after surgical treatment of the said patient population.

[Errors in outpatient stomatological practice in the diagnosis and treatment of odontogenic maxillary sinusitis].

Analysis of case histories of patients with odontogenic sinusitis helped single out the typical errors often made by the practitioners when diagnosing and treating this disease. These errors are: untimely diagnosis of the perforation, inadequate examination, erroneous interpretation of the diagnosis. When the maxillary sinus bottom is perforated during removal of a tooth, the physician often erroneously closes this opening.