A cutting edge treatment for sinus infections

These days, Tom Watson has a lot to sniff at. The Trumbull home remodeling contractor's nose is in the air. But there's nothing haughty about it. He's just taking in the scents around him. There's the Chanel No. 5 that his wife spritzes on her wrists. The aroma of the purple azalea-like flowers from his neighbor's yard. Wisps of a tantalizing seafood fra diavolo over linguini he'll have for dinner.

Watson is reaping the benefits of a renewed sense of smell — something he all but lost because of chronic severe sinus problems — thanks to a new surgical technique known as balloon sinuplasty.

"I'd had sinus infections for years — serious ones. They got so bad that the whole right side of my frontal sinuses swelled up...[CONNPOST.com]