Özet:

Rinolithiasis, a condition due to accumulation of organic and inorganic materials in nasal cavity, is referred to as ‘sinolithiasis’ when located in a paranasal sinus. The maxillary sinus is the most common site of the sinoliths and they may be called as ‘anthrolith’. The second common site is the frontal sinus. Sinolithiasis is a rare pathology of exogenous origin and it may rarely originate from dental filling materials, due to fistulization of tooth root to the maxillary sinus. Additionally, inflammatory process based on sinolith may cause polypoid degeneration inside the sinus and the nasal cavity. Invasion of the ethmoid sinus by dental filling material and dependently sinolith formation are rarer. In this report, we aimed to present a sinolithiasis case due to invagination of dental filling material into maxillary sinus, then ethmoid sinus, with co-existed inflammatory process and to emphasize the importance of the computerized tomoghraphy for diagnosis.

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