Sinus lift symptoms

To provide the best possible care to my patients, I follow the Dubai Health Authority’s mandate to inform them about the potential symptoms after a sinus lift.

As a practitioner who values transparency and patient-centered care, I recognize the importance of educating my patients about the procedure and its potential outcomes.

By doing so, I can ensure that my patients are well-informed, confident, and satisfied with their experience.

What symptoms are normal after sinus lift, and what are not?​

Understanding the potential symptoms after a sinus lift surgery is crucial for patients and healthcare providers. Because of that, I’ve developed a table on this page that abstracts the maximum symptoms patients may experience on different days following a sinus lift. By monitoring the dynamics of these symptoms, anyone can evaluate the sinus lift’s success and ensure that patients are well-informed and ready for potential side effects.

Normal sinus lift symptoms

  • Intermittent bleeding discharge from the nose on the first day after surgery
  • Pain is usually not acute and feels similar like after a tough bruise and disappears in a few days
  • Swelling can be excessive in some clinical cases. It can involve lips, cheek, and eyelids on the side of the sinus lift
  • Mouth bleeding discharge sometimes appears with red saliva, and the gauze in the mouth becomes bright red but not dark burgundy in the first 24 hours
  • Fever is felt like the flu during the first days
  • Hematoma usually appears on the fifth day and can be noticeable on the cheek, neck around the nose, and eye

Abnormal sinus lift symptoms

  • Any of the normal symptoms are outside the normal range in severity or timespan
  • Forehead pain
  • Liquid discharge from nose except blood
  • Wound opening accompanied by purulent exsudation
  • Compromised vision
  • Difficulties with breathing, swallowing, speaking, and mouth opening

What do I do to reduce the potential symptoms after sinus lift?

  • An implantologist cannot nullify the inherent response of the human body to surgery, but I have been able to reduce the symptoms in many of my patients significantly. My utmost care principle is at the heart of these efforts
  • Scrupulous health evaluation to exclude intraoperative and postoperative pitfalls during and after sinus lift
  • Pre-planning of surgery with computer-assisted design software to decrease the number of decisions during sinus lift itself
  • Top-world incision
  • Low-invasive piezo surgical approach from an ambassador of the International Academy for Ultrasonic Surgery and Implantology
  • Working with high magnification to make all hand movements perfect
  • Everything in place in the mind of the surgeon to perform a lateral sinus graft in less than 40 minutes
  • Recording every surgery I perform on video and regularly review them to improve my future operations

An expert at lateral sinus augmentation must know why the lack of blood drops from the nose signals a tough recovery

— Dr. Anton Gerasimov

On the night of the Sinus Lift procedure

Pain (0 – painless, 100 – severe pain)

Swelling (0 – symmetrical face, 100 – excessive swelling)

Bleeding discharge (0 – absent, 100 – profuse bleeding)

Fever (body temperature, Celsius degrees)

Hematoma (0 – not present, 100 – blackish bruise)

On the 1st postsurgical day of the Sinus Lift procedure

Pain (0 – painless, 100 – severe pain)

Swelling (0 – symmetrical face, 100 – excessive swelling)

Bleeding discharge (0 – absent, 100 – profuse bleeding)

Fever (body temperature, Celsius degrees)

Hematoma (0 – not present, 100 – blackish bruise)

On the 3rd postsurgical day of the Sinus Lift procedure

Pain (0 – painless, 100 – severe pain)

Swelling (0 – symmetrical face, 100 – excessive swelling)

Bleeding discharge (0 – absent, 100 – profuse bleeding)

Fever (body temperature, Celsius degrees)

Hematoma (0 – not present, 100 – blackish bruise)

On the 5th postsurgical day of the Sinus Lift procedure

Pain (0 – painless, 100 – severe pain)

Swelling (0 – symmetrical face, 100 – excessive swelling)

Bleeding discharge (0 – absent, 100 – profuse bleeding)

Fever (body temperature, Celsius degrees)

Hematoma (0 – not present, 100 – blackish bruise)

On the 7th postsurgical day of the Sinus Lift procedure

Pain (0 – painless, 100 – severe pain)

Swelling (0 – symmetrical face, 100 – excessive swelling)

Bleeding discharge (0 – absent, 100 – profuse bleeding)

Fever (body temperature, Celsius degrees)

Hematoma (0 – not present, 100 – blackish bruise)

Conclusion about sinus lift symptoms

If you experience any abnormal symptoms or if your normal symptoms persist longer than expected, feel free to reach your implantologist right away.

As a practitioner who values patient care and support, I’m available 24/7 to answer my patients’ questions after sinus lift procedures.

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