Why Do Turbinates Regrow After Radiofrequency Reduction?
Nasal turbinates help warm up and humidify the air passing through the nasal cavity. If these turbinate become too large, they can actually block the airflow. This is called "turbinate hypertrophy" or "turbinate growth". This may cause respiratory problems, frequent infections, oral dryness and impaired sleep quality.
Causes of Nasal Turbinate Growth / Hypertrophy
The causes of nasal turbinate hypertrophy can be summarized as follows:
Nasal turbinate hypertrophy may be acute or chronic. Some of the most common causes of the situation are:
- chronic sinus inflammation
Regular contact of purulent nasal discharge to nasal turbinates may cause chronic inflammation and growth / hypertrophy
- environmental irritants
Nasal turbinates are structures that allow filtration of external environmental particles. No matter how dirty, chemical and industrial particles are contacted; The risk of nasal turbinates is high. The resulting mechanism is to ensure that external environmental irritants are caught in the nose by making it difficult to reach the lungs.
- seasonal allergies
People with an allergic structure (atopic), the nasal mucosa more than the inflammatory reaction. If you have an allergic structure, avoid contact with your allergens after nose surgery, and if you cannot avoid it, regular nasal saline washing, treatment in the form of allergy medications may slow down or prevent the nasal turbinate hypertrophy.
Each of these conditions may cause the soft tissue of the turbinates to enlarge and swell. Many people with concha hypertrophy have a family history of allergic rhinitis.
Try to reduce allergens at home to prevent the growth of the nasal turbinate!
One way to treat symptoms of turbinate hypertrophy is to limit your exposure to environmental allergens. Here are some tips to help you achieve this:
• Make every effort to clean up excess dust and pets in the house. This includes vacuuming carpets, pillows, covers and furniture to remove dust.
• Place the fabric covered toys in the freezer bags and leave them in the freezer for 24 hours. This can help kill dust mites that cause allergies.
• Protect your bed from dust mites by placing a dustproof cover on the mattress.
• Avoid smoking in particular indoors.
• Clean mold and mold with special formula cleaners especially in basements, bathrooms and kitchens.
• Use a highly efficient particulate air (HEPA) filter in the interior. This filter can help remove significant amounts of irritating dust in a room. The most effective place to use an air filter fits because it is in your bedroom. If you have closed pets, keeping them away from your bedroom can help reduce pet dander irritants.
After radiofrequency reduction, the concha that received more RF continues to remain almost the same size, while the other one grows compensatory!
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Turbinates are tissues with unique functions and can be considered organs. The two images above show side-by-side CT scans taken in 2023, 2024, and 2026 at another clinic, following a turbinate radiofrequency reduction procedure. The right inferior turbinate continues to remain almost the same size after the procedure, while the left inferior turbinate has grown to its normal size over time.
Radiofrequency application should be performed in limited quantities!
Nowadays, the aim is to minimize damage and anatomical disruption as much as possible. Minimizing damage to both the internal structure and external mucosal surface of the turbinates is ideal. Applying high energy during radiofrequency or laser treatment, and resecting the turbinate tissue using microdebriders or shavers, guarantees permanent structural changes. If we spend a long time in an environment containing particles unsuitable for our lungs, the turbinates enlarge themselves, restricting the passage of air into the lower respiratory tract. If we remain in this environment for too long, turbinate hypertrophy will increase and may become permanent. At this point, to avoid making the turbinate non-functional, it is necessary to avoid significantly altering its structure through surgery or heat damage. The patient whose tomography images are shown above experienced a persistent feeling of dry, cold air in the right nasal cavity (nasal hypoventilation - symptoms of empty nose syndrome). In the left nasal cavity, these symptoms disappeared thanks to the growth of the inferior turbinate.
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Radiofrequency Volumetric Inferior Turbinate Reduction Videos:
Below you can find videos of radiofrequency treatment for inferior turbinate hypertrophy with 3 different devices:
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