Ethmoidectomy Cost in Chennai, India

The cost of ethmoidectomy in Chennai typically ranges from $510 to $4,900 USD (about ₹48,400 to ₹4.65 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for ethmoidectomy in Chennai is around $1,650 (about ₹1.57 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If your operation is planned, done by keyhole or a standard method, and you go home after a short stay, your bill is likely to be closer to $510 (about ₹48,400). It is likely to be nearer $4,900 (about ₹4.65 lakh) if you need open or robotic surgery, your condition is more complex, you stay longer or you choose a private room.

When comparing Chennai packages for ethmoidectomy, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Packing, splints or dressings
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

Ethmoidectomy opens and clears the ethmoid sinuses, a cluster of small air cells between the eyes, generally through the nose with an endoscope, to treat chronic sinusitis or polyps.

The ethmoid sinuses drain into a key area shared with other sinuses, and polyps frequently grow from this region.

NICE guidance IPG273 judges the evidence on short-term efficacy of balloon sinus dilation to be adequate with no major safety concerns, but states long-term outcomes are still needed, and the technique is not used for the ethmoid sinuses. Ethmoid disease therefore needs surgery.

Possible difficulties include bleeding, injury to the eye because the ethmoids sit beside the eye socket, rare leaks of brain fluid and polyps returning, which is why an experienced endoscopic sinus surgeon should operate.

Saline rinses continue for weeks, nose-blowing is avoided at first and clinic appointments clean out the sinuses.

Fitness to fly: pressure changes in the cabin can cause pain or problems after ear, nose or sinus surgery, so the ENT surgeon confirms you are fit to fly at the review.

In Chennai, the price of ethmoidectomy is generally built from these parts:

• Tests beforehand: bloods, scans and a check by the anaesthetist.
• Operating theatre and anaesthetic: billed largely on time spent in theatre.
• Specialist fees: which are set by each hospital.
• Surgical approach: open, keyhole or robotic, where more than one is possible.
• Extent: partial or total ethmoidectomy.
• Polyp removal: if present.
• Navigation or imaging: during surgery.
• Day case or overnight: depending on extent.

Ask the Chennai hospital whether the price estimate covers the anaesthetist, the hearing or pathology tests and the post-operative clinic appointments.

ENT operations in Chennai take place in multi-speciality hospitals equipped with endoscopes and operating microscopes, with reconstructive and cancer teams joining for head and neck cases.

Hospitals in Chennai can hold NABH accreditation, India's national quality standard set by a board of the Quality Council of India and itself accredited by ISQua, and the NABH website shows whether an accreditation is still valid.

Joint Commission International (JCI) accredits a number of Indian hospitals, and its public directory lets you check whether a Chennai hospital on your shortlist is currently included.

Chennai was called Madras until the Tamil Nadu government changed the name in 1996, so older documents and some hospital paperwork may still use the earlier name.