Harju T, et al. - Authors statistically assessed the impacts of radiofrequency ablation, diode laser, and microdebrider-assisted inferior turbinoplasty techniques on ciliated epithelium and mucociliary function. More mucosal preserving techniques were the radiofrequency ablation and microdebrider-assisted inferior turbinoplasty vs the diode laser, which, at the 3-month follow-up, was found to increase the amount of squamous metaplasia. Seemingly, the number of cilia even increased following the radiofrequency ablation and microdebrider-assisted inferior turbinoplasty procedures, but not after diode laser. However, in all three groups, the mucociliary transport was equally preserved.