Anyone who's ever suffered from sinusitis will confess to having had bouts of headaches. However, it may not always be caused by sinusitis. An interesting case was written by a certain 'DP' to Doctor Vincent Martin detailing the hardships 'he' bore in connection with headaches seemingly caused by sinusitis. The patient has consulted with different specialists but still the condition persists....

American Academy of Otolaryngology predicted that more than 37 million US residents go through one period of sinusitis every single year. Sinusitis is another name for a sinus infection, a common disorder. Acute rhinosinusitis is one of the most common infections in the United States. Millions of cases occur each year, affecting all age groups and all segments of the population. Most symptoms...

There are four main sinus cavities in the head. They are frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid and maxillary. As the name suggests, maxillary sinus disease occurs when the membrane of the maxillary sinus cavity becomes inflamed. The maxillary sinuses are basically located below the eyes on either side of the nose. The inflammation of the mucous membrane may be due to infection or allergy. Maxillary sinus...

The ethmoid sinus, is one of the paranasal (hollow space in the bones around the nose) sinuses, it is collectively called ethmoidal air cells. It is an air-space enclosed between the spongy ethmoid bone in the upper part of the nose between the eyes. The air cells are innervated by anterior and posterior ethmoidal nerves. It comprises of a number of thin-walled cavities located in the ethmoidal...