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Thursday, 1 January 2015

There is an unknown threshold of loss of turbinate tissue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_nose_syndrome

 In fact, he maintains that there is an unknown threshold of loss of turbinate tissue from which the nasal mucosa can not recuperate from the daily onslaught of direct airflow. Kern and Moore conducted a large retrospective study of 242 patients which they carefully examined over several years at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota, US), all of whom had undergone some form of partial or radical turbinectomy, following which they had developed symptoms of atrophic rhinitis.

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