Symptoms and Signs

Patients with sinusitis usually present with malaise, mild fever and headache, and nasal discharge. The area of the face over the inflamed sinus may even appear swollen in some cases. Maxillary sinusitis may cause pain in the maxillary area of the face, toothache, and frontal headache. Frontal sinusitis causes frontal pain and headache. Ethmoid sinusitis causes pain behind the eyes and frontal headache. Sphenoid sinusitis causes pain in the occipital region. The risks of sinusitis is that it can become chronic or lead to complications such as orbital cellulitis, meningitis and brain abscess, which can even be fatal.