ABSTRACT
Rhinosinusitis is a very common disease in children (1). The average toddler
raised in the home environment has six to eight upper respiratory infections
(URIs) each year while the child in daycare may have up to 20-22 URIs each
year. Sinusitis may be the result in 0.5% of these infectious processes (2). In
older children, 3-4% of all otherwise healthy children will develop sinusitis
each year. The majority of these episodes resolve without intervention or only
require one course of antibiotics. Some children develop recurrent or chronic
rhinosinusitis that responds poorly or transiently to intensive medical manage-
ment. Functional endoscopic sinus (FES) surgery may be considered when
extensive medical management has failed (3).
