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Your guide to Empty Nose Syndrome

Prevention, understanding, and an honest look at what is being tried. Research, airflow simulation, free tools and nasal prostheses, gathered by someone who lives with it.

I am neither a doctor nor a researcher. Everything here reflects my own work and my own reading, shared openly so you can judge it yourself.
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Self-assessment · ENS6Q

Could it be Empty Nose Syndrome?

Rate each symptom from 0 (none) to 5 (as bad as it can be). Your score appears as you answer.

Dryness
Sense of diminished nasal airflow
Suffocation
Nose feels too open
Nasal crusting
Nasal burning
The air where you are today

Is your air dry for your nose?

Type your city to see today's relative and absolute humidity. A priori, for ENS, it is the absolute humidity that matters, not the relative humidity shown by weather apps.

Why relative humidity is a poor indicator · Humidity converter

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Weather data: Open-Meteo. Your city is only used to get the weather; ENS Tips keeps nothing.

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Ask your questions about ENS

An answer drawn from a library of 40 scientific studies.

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What is ENS?

The turbinates, the surgery, the mechanism.

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ENSTips DICOM Viewer

Free online DICOM viewer for sinus CT scans. Private, no install, drag & drop your files, nothing is uploaded.

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ENS Treatment Reports / Patient Experiences

Patient treatment experiences Last updated on 6 October 2026 How have other people with empty nose syndrome (ENS) responded to treatment? Browse anonymized patient experiences with surgery, injections, and everyday breathing aids,…

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Test an implant before the real surgery

Drag the slider: the same nasal cavity, before and after a virtual implant on the floor of the nose. In red, the areas where the air rubs the most against the mucosa.

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How Nasal Cavity Structure Influences Empty Nose Syndrome Severity: A CFD-Based Analysis

Rumiano A., Dinh T. · bioRxiv, 2025 Summary · Full study →
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