Treating Pilonidal Disease in Asia and the South Pacific - The Sternberg Clinic for Pilonidal Surgery

If you live in Hawaii, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, or Malaysia and you’ve been diagnosed with a pilonidal cyst/disease and need surgery, or suspect that you have a pilonidal cyst/disease and may need surgery, where do you turn?

Many surgeons don’t think about the root cause of pilonidal cysts/disease, which is the deep cleft (the deep valley between one’s buttock cheeks). Often surgeons that do operate on pilonidal disease perform a wide excisional operation (where a large amount of tissue is removed) with a high recurrence rate and can make the disease worse. Since pilonidal disease is only an infection and it affects normal tissue, the removal of normal tissue is unnecessary. Pilonidal disease is an acquired infection (due to the deep cleft of affected individuals) and is not caused by a congenital cyst; hence, removing a large amount of normal tissue is not needed.

So, please don’t limit your search for a surgeon to your local region or country. Sticking with a local surgeon could set you back weeks, months, or years without proper treatment. Please search for the best surgical solution for pilonidal disease. The Cleft Lift Procedure is perhaps the best operation for pilonidal disease, and it should be curative. It’s far easier and less expensive to travel to San Francisco for an operation than to stay local and require months of wound care and an uncertain future.

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Thanks from a Cured High School StudentFebruary 20, 2020
After our daughter endured three failed surgeries by other providers to treat her pilonidal disease and missed nearly a year of high school, we turned to Dr. Sternberg. Our daughter was so worried that a Cleft Lift would radically changeContinue reading “Treating Pilonidal Disease in Asia and the South Pacific”
The Cleft Lift procedure is as good as it getsFebruary 9, 2020
I have a lot of gratitude for Dr. Sternberg and his team! I learned about pilonidal disease and surgeries online and found them dismal and not encouraging at all. It was gloomy to see that most surgeons would recommend aContinue reading “Treating Pilonidal Disease in Asia and the South Pacific”
Liz’s Story: ‘No one should have to go through this’February 6, 2020
We received a letter this month from a patient of The Sternberg Clinic who has successfully recovered from Pilonidal Disease after undergoing the Cleft Lift procedure at The Sternberg Clinic for Pilonidal Surgery. Read her story: What started off asContinue reading “Treating Pilonidal Disease in Asia and the South Pacific”