When sinusitis occurs and medication is not effective, surgery can be used to treat sinusitis. The cost of sinusitis surgery depends on the region, the hospital, and the surgical method used. It usually ranges from several thousand dollars to tens of thousands of dollars.
Sinusitis is a disease with complex pathology. In milder cases, there may only be a collection of pus. In severe cases, due to repeated attacks, there may be not only pus collections but also calcifications and chronic granulation tissue growths inside the sinuses. The method of surgery varies. This is the most important reason for the difference in the cost of surgery.
Sinusitis is merely a collection of pus, which can be easily drained out by simply puncturing the bony plates of the sinus wall to cure the sinusitis. This procedure is simple and costs around 1000-3000 RMB if you consider the anesthesia used for analgesia.
In sinusitis with a more severe pathology, simply using a punctured bone plate to drain the pus may not completely solve the problem. In this case, special instruments are usually used to enter the interior of the sinus under the guidance of nasal endoscopy to perform complex operations such as scraping, cleaning, flushing, and hemostasis, which cannot be done with general anesthesia and require the option of general anesthesia. Combined with the high technical requirements of the operation, the advanced equipment used, the cost of the operation may reach more than 20,000 yuan.
The cost of sinusitis surgery varies from region to region because of the different economic development and prices. However, with the soundness of the domestic medical insurance system, these costs can be reimbursed by a large percentage, which greatly reduces the burden of patients.
Sinusitis surgery is also subject to the possibility of recurrence, so it is not recommended if the sinusitis is mild. The cost of sinusitis surgery is determined by different regions and hospitals.