All I see is pits – do I need to worry? Pilonidal disease occurs because of a deep gluteal cleft. Pressure develops in the cleft, and causes pores in the midline to enlarge. If one looks carefully, there can be one or several of these enlarged pores in a vertical line along the crease in
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Either before or after surgery There is a lot of confusion about getting wet when patients have open wounds, or are immediately post-op. The general instructions that we give patients after a cleft-lift done at our clinic, is that it is OK to get the incision wet in the shower starting the day after surgery,
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Are evil bacteria the reason why some surgery fails? Bacteria will grow and cause problems in wounds that are not healing well. Usually, when pilonidal surgery fails it is not because a patient was unlucky enough to be colonized with a pathogenic bacteria, but rather because their surgery created an environment that caused whatever bacteria
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Unfortunately, some patient’s experience with surgery for pilonidal disease is unsuccessful. There are patients have numerous operations over a span of many years and can not seem to have their problem solved. Does that mean “surgery doesn’t work for them”? What it means is the kind or quality of surgery they had didn’t work for
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