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Can someone with severe allergies be helped with surgery?
A lot of patients have severe allergy problems and many of them
also have chronic sinus infection
problems and/or nasal obstruction.
Sometimes those patients can be helped with surgery. Typically, I like to make sure that we have
their allergies under as good of control as possible
before deciding to proceed with surgery. In other words, the allergies themselves might be contributing to swelling in the nose which could be
contributing to blockage of their breathing, and it
could be blocking the openings of the sinuses that
lead to sinus infections. Our hope would be that
we could treat the allergies by themselves which
would decrease the swelling enough to improve
the airway and decrease the severity and frequency of the infections. In some patients, based on
their anatomy, that’s not possible and those patients are ones that would benefit from surgical
intervention.
COLIN PERO, MD
Double board certified Otolaryngologist / Head & Neck Surgeon
and Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon, who practices out
of Forest Park Frisco
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How do I know if I have a
broken bone?
A lot of people grow up being told by
their mothers or other family members, whoever plays the doctor in the
family, that “if you can move it, it’s not
broken.” I know I was told that when I was a kid.
That’s definitely not true. Even if it’s badly broken
you can still move it. The signs of a fracture are
pretty consistent though. It’s going to be pain that
does not resolve over the first two or three days,
same goes for the swelling. A simple injury will often feel better the first or second day, but a fracture
does not. It will feel worse – more painful, more
swollen, and very difficult to move. Some movement can be done, but it’s definitely not normal
movement. Other signs of a fracture are bruising
or any discoloration, bluish or greenish, that occur quickly; significant swelling that doesn’t go
away in a day or two; and difficulty with weight
bearing, meaning you can’t put weight on it after a
couple of days. These are also signs that you probably need an x-ray to verify whether or not the
bone is broken.
DANIEL ALDRICH, MD
Board certified Orthopedic
Surgeon and Chief of Surgery at
Presbyterian Hospital of Rockwall,
who practices out of Forest Park
Dallas
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I have been diagnosed with
HPV, what does that mean?
I see a number of young women in
my practice who come to me with
an abnormal pap smear showing
HPV changes and this has patients
extremely concerned because they feel like they
have been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease. Part of what I tell my patients, is that the
HPV virus is endemic in the population. That
it’s present in most people who have had sexual
intercourse and for the majority of these patients
it doesn’t create any issues. The body sees it and
it clears it or isolates it, so it doesn’t create a lot
of problems. For a small percentage of patients
it can create abnormal pap smears but even these
abnormal pap smears can be very readily handled
and treated non-invasively as long as people keep
up with their exams.
JONATHAN OH, MD
Board certified Gynecological
Oncologist and OB / GYN, specializing in Gynecological Oncology,
who practices out of Forest Park
Frisco
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