mucus muÂ·cus (myÅÅ'kÉs) n. The viscous slippery substance that consists chiefly of mucin, water, cells, and inorganic salts and that is secreted as a protective lubricant coating by the cells and glands of the mucous membranes.
In any case, there are 2 main ways turbinate reduction is performed depending on exam and symptom complaints: Method #1: Coblation Sub-Mucosal Turbinate Reduction (SMR) is by removing internal turbinate tissue as well as shrinking the turbinate by a method called submucosal coblation and can be done under local in an office-like setting (no IV is even needed).
While careful and judicial conservative reductions of a turbinateâs volume can be beneficial to the patient, an aggressive turbinectomy, in which most or all of the main turbinal body is resected, can be a devastating procedure that causes ENS.In many patients, ENS-type like symptoms develop even after what seems to be conservative reductions of the turbinates, especially if they include the anterior portion of the inferior turbinates, which are essentially a vital part of the inner nasal ...