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    • About Dr. Steven C. Immerman
    • About Dr. Richard Daniels
    • Dr Immerman’s Credentials
    • Our Surgeons
    • Our Staff
    • Patient Satisfaction
    • Testimonials
  • Our Clinic
    • Consultation
    • Billing & Insurance
    • Eau Claire, Wisconsin
    • Hospitals
    • Notice of Provider Privacy Practices
  • Diagnosis and Treatment
    • Pilonidal Cysts
    • Cleft-Lift Procedure
    • Glossary of Pilonidal Terminology
    • Pilonidal Disease
    • Pilonidal Operations
    • Pilonidal disease with minimal symptoms
    • Help! I just had a wide excision!
    • The Definitive Guide to Pilonidal Abscess
    • Pilonidal Sinus
    • Why Isn’t My Wound Healing?
    • Why didn’t my doctor tell me about the cleft-lift procedure?
    • Hidradenitis and Pilonidal Disease
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    • “Hacks” for Healing after Pilonidal Surgery
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    • SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
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    Patient Satisfaction with the Cleft Lift Procedure

    Patient Satisfaction with the Cleft Lift Procedure

    As surgeons, when we do operations we have certain parameters that we look at to determine success of a procedure. But, patients can view things very differently, and what we consider a success, may not…

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    • MAY 31, 2021
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    Who is a “candidate” for a cleft lift?

    Who is a “candidate” for a cleft lift?

    When patients see a surgeon and ask about the cleft lift procedure this becomes an important question. We use the term “candidate”, but this is not an election! Often, surgeons will indicate to a patient…

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    • FEBRUARY 2, 2021
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    The Latest Clinical Research

    The Latest Clinical Research

    Dr. Immerman’s results on 700 cleft lift patients Dr. Immerman has been keeping track of his cleft lift patients since 1993, and has just published his results in a peer reviewed scientific article….

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    • DECEMBER 6, 2020
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    Flap Terminology Confusion

    Flap Terminology Confusion

    The difference between Bascom’s Operation and The Bascom Cleft-Lift There are many different operations for pilonidal disease and the terminology can be confusing. At our clinic we perform the…

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    • OCTOBER 4, 2020
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    Letter from a grateful family

    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…

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    • SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
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    Sitting after Cleft-Lift Surgery

    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,…

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