fiance had sinuses "vacuumed" out before deviated septum surgery, whats this called?

Question

this was in germany at a military hostpital. he calls it vacuuming out his sinuses, he was a kid when he had this done, he described it as a tube (i think) they stuck up his nose and then it sucked out all the gunk that collects in the sinuses, alllllllll the way back, so it was this process that he called a vacuum. does anyone know what this would be called? he isnt sure what its really called and i can't find anything about that online, so i assume its called something else. they did this to him before they performed the surgery. i have lots of sinus issues and want to find out what this is called? and if anyone knows if i can get it done when i don't have a deviated septum??

Answer 1

fess, functional endoscopic sinus surgery is one type of surgery that matches the description, you will need to see an ent doctor anyways, good luck