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In recent years the number of frontal sinus trauma is increasing due to a large number of traffic accidents, doing sports and fights. Frontal sinus trauma occurs in 5-12% of facial skeleton fractures. Complications of sinusitis are divided into early complications, till 6 weeks from the trauma and late complications which occur after this period of time. In this paper we described a 33-year-old patient, who suffered from acute sinusitis complicated with orbital abscess of right eye. Nine years before this disease he sustained an injury of head in which anterior and inferior wall of right frontal sinus were broken. The patient underwent a functional endoscopic sinus surgery with enlargement of the frontal sinus ostium and across external approach, through bone defect in inferior wall of frontal sinus, the frontal sinus and orbital abscess were drainaged. The patient healed well within 2 weeks. Non-complicated fractures of facial skeleton can be dangerous, and through them the inflammation can spread to adjacent tissues. Reconstruction of the bone defects should be taken into consideration in such cases.