使用鼻窦镜检查上颌窦早在本世纪初就已开始,但直到1950年前后才有零散报导。Reichert等于1902年使用当时新发明的Nitze氏膀胱镜经牙槽插入上颌窦内进行检查。此后又采用局麻下经犬齿窝或下鼻道径路,先用套管针穿刺然后引进镜身,简化了检查方法。近20年来,不少德国和奥地利学者改进了鼻窦镜检查技术,并将这种方法及经鼻窦镜摄取的 Sinusoscopy of the maxillary sinus began as early as the beginning of this century, but it was not reported until around 1950. Reichert equal 1902 using the newly invented Nitze cystoscopy was inserted into the maxillary sinus alveolar examination. Since then by local anesthesia through the fossa or inferior nasal approach, the first use of trocar puncture and then introduce the mirror body, simplifying the inspection method. In the past 20 years, many German and Austrian scholars improved the technique of sinusoscopy, and this method and the sinusoscopic