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Endoscopic removal of a dental implant through a middle meatal antrostomy.

Kim JW, Lee CH, Kwon TK, Kim DK

Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-Si, Kyunggi-Do, South Korea. kimemail@snubh.org

Ear nose and throat surgeons use endoscopic operations on the sinuses not only for chronic paranasal sinusitis but also for other operations. We report the case of a 52-year-old woman in whom we used an endoscopic technique to remove a dental implant that had been displaced into the maxillary sinus. We approached the sinus through the natural ostium, and the foreign body was removed through the widened ostium.

Published 28 May 2007 in Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 45(5): 408-9.
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