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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Dentistry Volume 2010, Article ID 404982, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2010/404982 Review Article The Prevalence of Concha Bullosa and Nasal Septal Deviation and Their Relationship to Maxillary Sinusitis by Volumetric Tomography Kyle D. Smith,1 Paul C. Edwards,2 Tarnjit S. Saini,3 and Neil S. Norton1 1 Department of Oral Biology, Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178, USA 2 Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 3 Lieutenant Colonel, US Army DENTAC, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX 78234-5004, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Neil S. Norton, nsnorton@ Received 11 May 2010; Accepted 25 July 2010 Academic Editor: Preetha P. Kanjirath Copyright © 2010 Kyle D. Smith et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of concha bullosa and nasal septal deviation and their potential relationships to maxillary sinusitis. 883 CT scans taken at Creighton University School of Dentistry from 2005 to 2008 were retrospectively reviewed for the presence of concha bullosa, nasal septal deviation, and maxillary sinusitis. 67.5% of patients exhibited pneumatization of at least one concha, 19.4% of patients had a deviated septum, and 50.0% had mucosal thickening consistent with maxillary sinusitis. 49.3% of patients who had concha bullosa also had evidence of maxillary sinusitis. Only 19.5% of patients with concha bullosa also had nasal septal deviation, whereas 19.7% of patients with sinusit