Konstantinos Valsamidis

TL;DR: A significant proportion of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 report a new onset of smell or taste loss as discussed by the authors, but the duration of the chemosensory impairment and predictive factors of recovery are still unclear.

TL;DR: Thorough preoperative evaluation of the symptom severity and stress levels is critical as these two factors are predictive of patient’s satisfaction after septoplasty.

TL;DR: Olfactory dysfunction appears to significantly affect the psychological status of patients with nasal obstruction, and olfactory recovery improves the patients' perception of personal benefit from septoplasty.

TL;DR: Septoplasty leads to improvement in smell perception, and patients with improved smell report greater personal benefit from septoplasty than patients with remaining olfactory deficits.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that septoplasty significantly increases nasal patency and causes a significant subjective improvement in nasal obstruction symptoms and the absence of a statistically significant correlation among the objective measurements, the symptom scores, and the Patients' low GBI scores indicates that factors other than the anatomical findings may also contribute to the patients' perception of QoL.