Sinus Department

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 the full range of options — from minimally invasive balloon sinuplasty in NYC for selected focal narrowing, to endoscopic (functional) sinus surgery for more extensive disease, polyps, or fungal involvement. Because Dr. Mourad is trained in both otolaryngology and facial plastic surgery, the structural causes of obstruction — a deviated septum or enlarged turbinates — can be evaluated and addressed within one coordinated plan. Whether you are early in researching your symptoms or have been told you need sinus surgery, the pages below explain each condition, each technique, and what recovery and cost realistically involve — so you can make an informed decision with a surgeon who treats surgery as the last step, not the first.