These images are screen-shots of the highlights of my Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, where various power-tools, aided by the use of a miniscule camera located on the end of a long thin probe - an "Endoscope" - were used to improve upon the sinus cavities. The doctor inserted this probe deep into my schnozz and conducted the whole operation by looking at a large TV hanging from the ceiling. These images are the result of a video tape of the procedure.

For those readers who are nostrilly educated, this is what I had done:

• I had a Deviated Septum fixed, which basically involved breaking the central cartilage of my nose and re-setting it.
  
  
• The entire Ethmoid Sinuses (which are like a honeycomb of chambers between and behind the eyes) were removed. The surgeon "obliterated" them, bone and all, so they're simply not there anymore.
  
  
• The openings to both Maxillary Sinuses were widened.
  
  
• The most delicate procedure was the modification of the Frontal Sinuses, which sit behind the eyes and in front of the brain. These are normally 2 cavities, both of which drain down into the other sinuses in separate channels. But one of my Frontals was entirely sealed, and the bone between it and one of my eye-sockets had worn away and was about to rupture into my eye, which can be deadly.
  
  The surgeon removed the bone that separates these 2 sinuses in the middle, and also removed the "floors" of both sinuses, so that in place of the 2 separate drainage channels there is now one, common drainage which is much wider.
  
  For those who are interested, here is a photo of the Frontal sinuses post-surgery, after they had healed.
  
  

The first frame is of me unconscious on the operating table, with my eyes covered by white gauze, and one side of my nose containing a bunch of string leading into the sinuses. Each subsequent frame descends closer to, and into, the schnozz of no return. These are only a few of the tools that were used. The original QuickTime file is 22 MB in size, so I only captured a few of the pictures from the file.

Best viewed while eating lunch.