2019 Volume 62 Issue 1 Pages 19-24
Recently, dental implant therapy has been routinely undertaken at many dental hospitals and institutions. Consequently, complications associated with dental implant treatment have also increased.
We report on patients with a foreign body (dental implants) in the maxillary sinus detected following dental implant placement and maxillary sinus augmentation surgery.
Endoscopic sinus surgery is indicated and is the procedure of first choice for the extraction of a dental implant occurring as a foreign body in the maxillary sinus. A window is made in the lateral wall of the inferior meatus (medial wall of the maxillary sinus) and the foreign body is extracted using a straight rigid endoscope. This surgical procedure was minimally invasive and can be performed as a short stay surgery.
