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  • Our Clinic
    • Consultation
    • Billing & Insurance
    • Eau Claire, Wisconsin
    • OakLeaf Surgical Hospital
    • Notice of Provider Privacy Practices
  • Diagnosis
    • Pilonidal Cysts
    • What Causes Pilonidal Disease?
    • Glossary of Pilonidal Terminology
    • Pilonidal Disease
    • Pilonidal Sinus
    • Hidradenitis and Pilonidal Disease
    • Pain from Pilonidal Cysts
  • Treatment
    • Cleft-Lift Procedure
    • Pilonidal Operations
    • The Definitive Guide to Pilonidal Abscess
    • Pilonidal disease with minimal symptoms
    • Help! I just had a wide excision!
    • Why didn’t my doctor tell me about the cleft-lift procedure?
    • Why Isn’t My Wound Healing?
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    • JULY 15, 2020
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    Is the Cleft-Lift a New Procedure?

    Is the Cleft-Lift a New Procedure?

    My surgeon said he never heard of it because it was a new, specialized procedure. It depends on your definition of “new”. The cleft-lift is a procedure that has had several modifications, within…

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    • JUNE 9, 2020
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    Pilonidal Disease: Can I Avoid Surgery?

    Pilonidal Disease: Can I Avoid Surgery?

    Will this go away by itself? Is it manageable with non-surgical care? This is a commonly asked question. Although I am a surgeon, I realize that surgery is not for everyone, and nobody is really excited…

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    • MARCH 13, 2020
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    Welcome to “Bizarro World”

    Welcome to “Bizarro World”

    Getting the right advice at the right time Those of you old enough to have read Superman Comics may remember the Bizarro World where everything was the opposite of the real world. Sometimes our patients…

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    • DECEMBER 26, 2019
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    Cleft-lift vs. Pit Picking

    Cleft-lift vs. Pit Picking

    What are the pros and cons? Cleft-lift and pit picking are two very different operations. Although both are for pilonidal disease, they each have their pluses and minuses. Here, I’m going to discuss…

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    • DECEMBER 7, 2019
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    What is the place of silver nitrate for pilonidal wounds?

    What is the place of silver nitrate for pilonidal wounds?

    The “art” of surgery. As surgeons, we each have have years of training and experience plus an enormous body of scientific and clinical information at our fingertips. There is so much information, that…

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    • NOVEMBER 30, 2019
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    Are Wound VAC’s Really That Great?

    Are Wound VAC’s Really That Great?

    The pros and cons of wound V.A.C.’s A suction device used to help heal a wound has several names: Wound V.A.C, VAC, “vacuum assisted wound closure” or “negative pressure wound…

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