Sinus Surgery and Treatment in NYC

Dr. Moustafa Mourad is a double board-certified sinus specialist in NYC, caring for patients across Manhattan and the surrounding region from the practice on the Upper East Side. Sinus disease is rarely a single problem — it is a pattern of blocked drainage, inflammation, and narrow anatomy that builds over months or years. The aim of this department is to identify exactly what is driving your symptoms before recommending any treatment, so that medical management, an in-office procedure, or surgery is matched to the actual diagnosis rather than offered by default.

Many patients arrive after years of facial pressure, congestion, post-nasal drip, and infections that clear with antibiotics only to return. Evaluation begins with a careful history, nasal endoscopy, and — when it is warranted — CT imaging, so the underlying cause is understood before a plan is made. For some patients the answer is better medical therapy and allergy control. For others, chronic sinusitis treatment, nasal polyps treatment, or care for recurrent sinus infections involves a procedure that reopens the natural drainage pathways. When surgery is the right step, it is most often performed endoscopically, through the nostrils, with no external incisions.

The department covers medical and procedural care, from balloon dilation for selected focal narrowing to endoscopic sinus surgery when direct access or tissue removal is required. The correct path depends on whether symptoms are acute, recurrent, or chronic; whether polyps, fungal material, dental disease, allergy, asthma, migraine, or structural obstruction contribute; and whether objective findings support sinus-directed treatment.