Sometimes wound from pilonidal surgery seem to heal, but then open up again, and this happens multiple times. This is a common problem, and usually means that there is still a residual cleft, that the scar from previous surgery is in the cleft, and the skin is fragile and intermittently breaks down, and then seemsRead more
Am I Doomed? The short answer is, “no”. But, what should you do now? When a cleft lift fails – meaning that either the incision came apart and isn’t healing, or a new cyst, sinus, or wound has developed – it is usually because the cleft-lift failed to flatten the entire cleft, a new foldRead more
The Gips Procedure is one of the many pilonidal operations that fall into the "minimally invasive pilonidal surgery" category. This procedure is a modification of the Bascom pit picking procedure, and it was described by Dr. Moshe Gips, from Israel, in an excellent paper from 2008. He modifies the pit picking operation by using trephinesRead more