You likely have a sinus infection if your first symptoms started near your eyes and moved down your face. For example, you first had pain and pressure on your forehead and between your eyes, which later traveled down your face and caused teeth sensitivity. A tooth-related issue is likely if the first symptoms were teeth sensitivity or pain in the middle of your cheeks near your nostrils, and that pain then moved up toward your eyes. While an upper tooth infection can trigger a sinus infection or a sinus infection can trigger upper teeth sensitivity, sinus infections do not cause pain in your lower teeth or jaw.
Call your dentist or primary care provider to be evaluated. You may need an X-ray or other images to determine the location of your infection. Generally speaking, blocked sinuses do not cause your eyes to water. Tear ducts near your eyes also drain through the nasal cavity, but they use a separate system from your sinuses. Occasionally, a tear duct can become blocked, leaving you with a watery, irritated eye. Allergies can cause watery eyes, along with sneezing and stuffy or runny nose.
Blocked sinuses typically do not cause eye bags or puffiness. Sinusitis does not cause pronounced puffiness or bags under your eyes. Often allergies can cause eye puffiness. Talk with your primary care provider or an allergist about treatment options. If you don't have a history of allergies, eye bags could be caused by an issue with the structure of the eye. As you age, your eyelids stretch and the muscles supporting them weaken. As a result, the fat that surrounds the eye can push forward and cause bags under the eye.
An eyelid surgery, called a blepharoplasty, can remove the excess fat, skin and muscle to eliminate the bags. This is not as common as people may think. Most likely, a person develops a head cold, or viral rhinitis, which can cause both an ear infection and sinus infection. While they may occur at the same time, viral rhinitis is the cause. A sinus infection rarely causes an ear infection. If you suffer from chronic sinuitis or other sinus conditions, talk with your primary care provider or ear, nose and throat provider about treatment options to help.
Quintin Cappelle, M. Request an Appointment Patient Online Services. Plainview Red Wing Sherburn St. The air within our sinuses exchanges constantly with air flowing through the nose. The growth of each sinus is variable, therefore, each of our sinuses are different in size and shape.
This variation depends upon individual genes just as we all have different fingerprints. In fact, in each individual the right and left sinuses are generally different in size and shape.
The osteomeatal channel, or the connection from the sinus to the nose, can also vary substantially in its length or width. This difference can impact greatly on the ability of this channel to function properly.
It may be very narrow or tortuous and therefore easily become blocked by swollen tissue such as occurs with colds, viruses. Healthy sinuses have a constant exchange of air and simultaneous flow of mucous out. Each sinus cavity has ONLY one connection to our nasal passage.
We have 4 major sinuses on each side. Frontal, Ethmoid, Maxillary and Sphenoid. Blockage of their channels, partial or complete, by either structural conditions or swollen membranes is the cause of Sinusitis.
The nasal passages, the sinuses and their connecting channels are lined by tissue or membrane called respiratory mucosa. In the healthy state this tissue is very thin and light pink in color. The paranasal sinuses include the following types of sinuses:.
The sinuses, except for the frontal sinuses, begin in the fetus as pea-sized air pockets that grow through childhood until they are roughly walnut sized. The sinuses lighten the skull or improve our voices, but their main function is to produce a mucus that moisturizes the inside of the nose. This mucus layer protects the nose from pollutants, micro-organisms, dust and dirt. Tiny hair cells called cilia move the layer of mucus slowly backward into the throat, where it is swallowed. The nose and the sinuses are closely linked by the ostium.
The nose is divided into two cavities by the nasal septum.
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