Septoplasty as a single surgical procedure or in combination with a turbinoplasty is one of the most common surgical procedures in adult ENT patients in the world. The indication is the correction of a deviated septum with the aim of restoring normal nasal breathing. However, understanding the intranasal anatomy and physiology is challenging and most international studies report that 1/3 of patients are not satisfied after the surgery after 6 -12 months and that the result is deteriorating with long term follow up. New technology to assess intranasal air flow and sensory airflow abnormalities has been suggested to increase accuracy in the diagnosis and follow-up of these patients.
This Research Topic of Frontiers in Surgery will focus on recent studies addressing predictors and outcomes for successful results in septoplasty surgery. Nasal obstruction is a common symptom in the adult population and is closely associated with impaired sleep and deteriorated health related quality of life. A majority of these patients have an inflammatory airways disease such as allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis and selecting the appropriate patients with symptomatic septal deviation from this large group can be difficult.
New diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to structural nasal obstruction also require profound knowledge and experience in the structure of the nasal passage beyond a deviated septum as well as inflammatory airways disease.
The Research Topic will focus on attracting new science in the field of high quality addressing diagnostics, surgical techniques and predictors for outcomes in septoplasty.
Keywords:
Septoplasty, Nasal Obstruction, Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Surgical Techniques, Predictors
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Septoplasty as a single surgical procedure or in combination with a turbinoplasty is one of the most common surgical procedures in adult ENT patients in the world. The indication is the correction of a deviated septum with the aim of restoring normal nasal breathing. However, understanding the intranasal anatomy and physiology is challenging and most international studies report that 1/3 of patients are not satisfied after the surgery after 6 -12 months and that the result is deteriorating with long term follow up. New technology to assess intranasal air flow and sensory airflow abnormalities has been suggested to increase accuracy in the diagnosis and follow-up of these patients.
This Research Topic of Frontiers in Surgery will focus on recent studies addressing predictors and outcomes for successful results in septoplasty surgery. Nasal obstruction is a common symptom in the adult population and is closely associated with impaired sleep and deteriorated health related quality of life. A majority of these patients have an inflammatory airways disease such as allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis and selecting the appropriate patients with symptomatic septal deviation from this large group can be difficult.
New diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to structural nasal obstruction also require profound knowledge and experience in the structure of the nasal passage beyond a deviated septum as well as inflammatory airways disease.
The Research Topic will focus on attracting new science in the field of high quality addressing diagnostics, surgical techniques and predictors for outcomes in septoplasty.
Keywords:
Septoplasty, Nasal Obstruction, Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Surgical Techniques, Predictors
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.