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What No One Will Tell You About Sinus Surgery Recovery

Endoscopic sinus surgery is a proven way of permanently relieving what’s causing your nasal congestion, chronic sinusitis, and other issues. It’s an invasive procedure that includes the removing of bone and tissue from your nose.

What is not shared with most patients before surgery is the painful process of ripping your scabs away during follow-up visits. This process is referred to as debridement. Removing the crusts from surgery is necessary to prevent scar tissue from obstructing air pathways, and it is very painful.

You want relief, but is the pain of surgery and recovery worth it when other options are available?

A question we will help you answer at North Texas Sinus Center.

Your ENT can advise on the risks associated with sinusitis medications

The Recovery Process: Healing from Sinus Surgery

As with any surgery, your body needs to adapt to change and heal from the cuts made and bone and tissue removed. Recovery often includes the following:

Pain
Congestion

Sinus headaches
Bleeding

Scarring
Scabbing

Scab-removing procedure (debridement)
Multiple follow-up appointments

Due to the impact sinus surgery will have on your life, you may need to take 1-2 weeks away from your job. For your sinuses to fully recover and adapt, it may take a month or longer. This may also delay relief that could be achieved from other treatment options.

Debridement - How Scabs are Removed from Your Nose

Endoscopic sinus surgery involves cutting into your nasal tissues and bone. As with a cut, you would get on your arm or foot, scabs form. These scabs in your sinuses prevent airflow.

During an appointment with your ENT, your doctor will use a scope to look into your nasal cavities. After locating where crusts are forming, the doctor will use specialized tweezers to latch onto the crusted scabs and remove them.

The process and location of the scabs, being in a highly sensitive part of your body, make this a painful procedure.

Avoid the pain, not the relief with Balloon Sinus Dilation

If you’re worried about the painful removal of scabs and undergoing weeks of recovery, consider Balloon Sinuplasty, also known as Balloon Sinus Dilation from North Texas Sinus Center. Performed by Dr. Gilmore, who has over 30 years of experience as a leading ENT, Balloon Sinus Dilation allows you to avoid the removal of bone and tissue in your nose, and scarring or scabbing that require additional follow-up appointments and painful removal.

Balloon Sinuplasty involves placing a small balloon in your blocked airways under local anesthesia. The balloon is then inflated and removed, allowing air to flow through pathways it was previously not able to flow through.

While you won’t have the pain that comes with sinus surgery, Balloon Sinuplasty does offer similar, long-lasting results. After the initial in-office procedure and a quick follow-up appointment, you’ll be done, and able to breathe out of your nose freely.

Sinus sufferers come to North Texas Sinusitis Center from Dallas, Arlington, Fort Worth, Plano, Wichita Falls, and beyond.

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