Abstract:Objective To investigate the relationship between nasal septum deviation and maxillary sinus pneumatization classification.Methods A retrospective assessment was performed on 100 patients with nasal septum deviation without coexisting sinonasal morbidity and 60 healthy individuals without nasal septum deviation. GE 64-slice spiral CT was used to observe the degree of maxillary sinus gasification and nasal septum deviation. And the data were statistically processed using SPSS 22.0.Results The nasal septum deviated to the right in 54.0% (n=54) patients, and to the left in 46.0% (n=46) patients. The deviation angle of nasal septum was 5.4°to 31.1°, with an average of (12.8±4.1)°. There was a statistically significant difference in the gender distribution between the patients with nasal septum deviation and the control group (χ2=12.62，P<0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between sex and normal nasal septum maxillary sinus gasification (χ2=4.32，P<0.05). There was a correlation between the angle of nasal septum deviation and the maxillary sinus of type I and type III (r=0.27，P<0.05). There was a significant relationship between nasal septum deviation and maxillary sinus gasification classification (χ2=18.52,P<0.05).Conclusions Men are more likely to have a deviated nasal septum and hypergasification of the maxillary sinuses. Whether the nasal septum is deviated and the deviation angle increases will affect the maxillary sinus gasification. That is, people with nasal septum deviation are more likely to have maxillary sinus hypergasification than those without nasal septum deviation. Patients with a larger angle of nasal septum deviation are more likely to have maxillary sinus hypergasification.
