Why Do Culture Results Take So Long? [video]

One of the most common questions I get after obtaining a culture of pus whether from the ear or the nose is how long it takes before the cu...

The Facial Triangle of Danger (Even Death)

Taken from Wikipedia If you draw a line between the eyebrow to the corners of the lip, a triangle is created which delimits a region esoteri...

Does Acupuncture Help With Allergies?

Image from Acupuncture For All According to one study , it does... Performed by researchers in China and Korea, they divided 238 patients su...

Sinus Mass Chance Finding (Incidentaloma)

The New York Times published a great story on the dreaded incidentaloma on Jan 17, 2013. An incidentaloma is essentially a chance finding o...

How Long Does it Take for a Cough to Clear Up?

Hypothetically speaking, how long would it take for a cough to clear up if a person comes down with an acute respiratory infection ? Accord...

Sinus Surgery Lawsuit Ruled Against ENT

A patient who had undergone endoscopic sinus surgery suffered detachment of the extraocular muscle resulting in double vision that required...

Yet Another Sinus Dilation Device - AerOS Sinus Dilation System

Sinus dilation has become all the rage in the past few years to treat chronic sinusitis , especially since CPT codes for this procedure has...

Oral Steroids No Help in Sinus Infections?

Media outlets such as Fox News reported yesterday that oral steroids do not help with sinus infections. This claim is based on a small stud...

Motley Crue Bassist Facing Sinus Surgery

Dr. Feelgood may be just a song by Motley Crue, but the band's bassist, Nikki Sixx may be facing sinus surgery . Per his twitter commen...

Dental X-rays Linked to Brain Tumors

In a study spanning over decades, researchers have found an association between dental x-rays and increased risk of a non-malignant type o...

Unnecessary Sinus Surgery

A well-respected ENT surgeon, Dr. Salah Salman, recently wrote a book, " Scrubbed Out ," critical of the American health system wi...

Head MRI and CT Scans Explained!

@ENTHouse brought to my attention a FANTASTIC website that literally identifies and goes through all anatomic structures on every slice of...

Stabbing Headache Around Eye or Cheek

Do you suffer from a stabbing headache in the areas denoted in red? Do these headaches seemingly come out of nowhere one day? Perhaps starte...

How to Make Xylitol Nasal Flush at Home

Given the unusually large reader response to my last blog regarding xylitol nasal rinses regarding the "recipe," I thought it eas...

Nasal Dripologist

I always thought that pediatricians, primary care physicians, allergists, and ENTs were the true nasal dripologists, but I guess I'm wr...

Xylitol Nasal Flushes Helps Prevent Chronic Sinusitis

Over the years, there has been much about how beneficial a safe food additive called xylitol is in preventing infections. This naturally-occ...

Portable CT Scanner

Portable X-ray machines are commonplace... but a portable CT scanner?!! I saw this article by MedGadget  about a portable CT scanner introdu...

In-Office Sinus Surgery Without General Anesthesia

There has been tremendous advances in sinus surgery over the past decade. From the elimination of nasal packing after most routine sinus su...

Working in a Salon Can Be Unhealthy for Your Nose and Throat!

We already know that small hair clippings from cutting hair can cause septal perforation and chronic sinusitis due to long-term inhalation....

Novel Treatment for Non-Allergic Rhinits

Non-allergic rhinitis is an extremely frustrating sino-nasal disorder that is characterized by all the same symptoms of sinusitis and alle...