Wound Healing Archives - Page 4 of 8 - Evergreen Surgical Pilonidal Clinic

- OCTOBER 24, 2021
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Why might a cleft lift need to be revised?
Why might a cleft lift need to be revised? There are times when even a properly performed cleft lift will need another operation to adjust the shape of the cleft. The reasons for this fall into two categories: The original incision has failed to heal properly or has healed, but come apart later. A newRead more
- OCTOBER 4, 2020
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Letter from a grateful family
With permission, I thought I’d share a recent correspondence from a patient’s father, who is a physician who has retired from surgery and now works in a wound care clinic. He has been trying to get his daughter’s pilonidal wound to heal after three failed operations. He found that in spite of diligent wound care
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- SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
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Sitting after Cleft-Lift Surgery
We encourage sitting immediately after surgery. When I perform a cleft lift, the incision is not in the midline – so when you are sitting there is no force pulling the incision apart. In addition, the reasons patients can have non-healing or recurrence are not that the wound is pulled apart, but rather that it
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