Abstract
It is important for the treatment to diagnose whether it¹s inflammation, tumor or congenital anomaly in the maxillary sinus lesion. While the pathological specimens at hospitals of Tokyo Dental College in 2018 to 2023, we obtained 81 cases of several diseases from maxillary sinus. Twenty-one cases of chronic sinusitis, 17 cases of postoperative maxillary cyst, 2 cases of mucous cyst of maxillary sinus, 8 cases of odontogenic keratocyst, 5 cases of foreign body pigmentation, 3 cases of mycosis, and others were diagnosed for specimens from maxillary sinus. In addition, recently augmentation of maxillary sinus floor is operated for dental implant treatment, hence using bone prosthetic material is increase. So, we can often obtain the materials from maxillary sinus as foreign body pigmentation for pathological examination.
