The curved bones along the walls of your nasal passage, called turbinates, can sometimes interfere with breathing. A turbinate reduction involves reducing the size of these bones to help open up ...

The turbinates create – as the name would imply – turbulent flow to be distributed to the moist nasal respiratory mucosa that lies beyond. The total surface area of this mucosa is greater than ...

“Atrophic rhinitis is a chronic inflammation of the nose, leading to a progressive loss of the nasal mucosa and turbinate bones,” explains Joseph Kioko, an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) clinicia ...