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How high is the risk of losing taste when having an operation in the cribriform plate ethmoid region?

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Dr. Clarence Grim answered

Specializes in Endocrinology

Loss of taste: Please discuss with your Dr who did he surgery. Can be a problem as taste is mostly smelling.

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Answered 11/28/2017

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