Yamasaki A, et al. - Researchers performed a prospective cohort study at a tertiary referral center to evaluate how functional septorhinoplasty (SRP) with and without inferior turbinate reduction (ITR) influence disease-specific symptom severity and general health-related quality of life (QOL) in long term. They included 567 patients. Of these, 391 patients underwent functional SRP alone (54.0% female; mean age 36.0 years) and 176 patients underwent functional SRP with ITR (50.0% female; mean age 35.6 years). A sustained, long-term improvement in nasal obstruction was reported in correlation with SRP based on disease-specific and general health-related QOL measures. Addition of ITR led to incremental improvement in outcomes. This study provides the foundation for defining health outcomes and the health utility value of surgical interventions that address nasal obstruction.