Rhinologic and Sleep Apnea Surgical Techniques

Stil Kountakis is currently Edward S. Porubsky Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Director of Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery, and Director of the Georgia Sinus Center, Augusta University, Georgia, USA. He has served as Past President of the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology-HNS. He received the 2015 Gerald S. Gussack Memorial Award of the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery for outstanding teaching in Otolaryngology. He is Past President of the American Rhinologic Society and received the society’s 2015 Golden Head Mirror Teaching Award for teaching and for his contributions to the ARS, and the 2017 ARS Presidential Citation. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has served as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy and the International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology. Dr. Kountakis has published extensively and his research interests include pathophysiology and pathogenesis of sinusitis and polyps, medical and surgical outcomes, and allergic fungal sinusitis. T. Metin Önerci is a Professor and Head of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. He holds important positions in a range of medical societies, including general secretary of the International Rhinologic Society, and chairperson of the Rhinology and Allergy, Sleep, and Facial Plastic Surgery Committees of the International Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies. He is an honorary member of several societies and serves on the editorial boards of various journals, including Laryngoscope and European Archives of Otorhinolaryngology and is the editor of the European Journal of Rhinology and Allergy. Dr. Önerci has authored more than 200 papers in national and international journals, and numerous book chapters, and is also the author or editor of twenty books in Turkish and four in English.

• CT Anatomy/Radiology.- Surgical Anatomy.- Endoscopic Anatomy.- Embryology.- Surgical Instruments.- Injection and Anesthetic techniques.- Septal and turbinate surgery.- Ethmoidectomy/Middle Meatal antrostomy.- Approaches to the Sphenoid Sinus.- Trans-ethmoid, Trans-nasal.- Endoscopic and microendoscopic frontal sinus surgery.- Endoscopic Modified Lothrop.- Surgery for hyperplastic rhinosinusitis/nasal polyposis.-  Surgery for allergic fungal rhinosinusitis.-  Endoscopic medial Maxillectomy.- Surgery for benign tumors.-  Repair of anterior skull base defects and CSF leaks.- Sinus trauma.- Mucoceles.- Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy.-  Endoscopic transsphenoid hypophysectomy.-  Image guided sinus surgery.-  Revision endoscopic sinus surgery.-  Pediatric sinus surgery.-  Open Approaches to the sinuses.- Combined open and endoscopic techniques.-  Trans-septal Frontal Sinusotomy.- Endoscopic Skull Base surgery.- Sleep apnea surgical techniques.- Epidemiology of Snoring and Apnea.- PSG Evaluation for ENTs   in Adults and Children.- Signs and Symptoms ENT Evaluation of the Sleep Disordered Breathing Patient.- Upper Airway Resistance syndrome.- The role of ENT in OSAS.- Palatal and Pharyngeal Anatomy in Snorers and Apnea Patients.- DISE.- Risks of General Anesthesia in People with OSAS.- Friedman Tongue Position and Staging for OSAS.- Lingual Tonsil Hypertrophy Grading system.- CPAP, APAP, BiPAP Treatment in OSAS.- Oral Appliances for OSA.- Surgery Algorithms for Obstructive Sleep Apnea.- Nasal obstruction and OSAS in children.- Nasal Obstruction and its Medical and Surgical Management in Sleep Related Breathing Disorders.- Nasal surgery nasal valve.- Inferior Turbinate.- Is snoring a disease?.- Positional OSAS.- Uvulectomy.- Uvulopalatal Flap.- Palatal Implants for Obstructive Sleep Apnea.- Injection Snoreplasty.- LAUP.- UPPP.- Z Palatoplasty.- Expansion Sphincter Pharyngoplasty.- Barbed Snore surgery.- Lateral Phryngoplasty.- Transpalatal Advancement Pharyngoplasty.- Tonsils tonsillecromy and tonsillotomy.- SMILE.- TORS.- Hyoid suspension.- Genioplasty.- MMA advancement.- Maxillomandibular Widening in Sleep Apnea Surgery.- Distraction Osteogenesis Mandibular Maxillary Midfacial.- Hyposlossal nerve stimulation: New Frontiers.- Current and Future Trends in the Surgical Management of Sleep Related Breathing Disorders.- Reasons or failure.- Surgical Treatment of children with OSA.- Sedated Endoscopy and Management of palatal surgery failure.