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He was noted to have some improvement of his upper alveolar paraesthesia postoperatively. Silent sinus syndrome is part of the spectrum of chronic maxillary atelectasis. In the presented case, chronic osteitic bony sclerosis, as opposed to osteopenic change of the maxillary sinus, was seen. 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