Pennsylvania Surgeons

[talex17]

Had a follow up appt. with Dr.Rosengart.(1 month) No draining or re-occurance at all. Feels great...no pain...no blistering...no nothing..its gone!!

Special THANKS to JAREDSMOM for sending me to Dr.Rosengart! You literally saved my ass!!!

[Jaredsmom]

You are VERY welcome, talex!!!!


Jared is 16 months post Dr. Rosengart's cleft lift and is doing FABULOUSLY. He even rides horses...


I'm glad I was of some help, talex.....


CONGRATULATIONS!

[20abc07]

Hi, I am new here and wanted to know if anyone has gone to or knows if Dr. Rombeau is good and if they have had success with him. Thanks!

[Nomorepc]

Originally Posted by talex17

I've had my cyst for about 5 years. I just got tired of having to deal with it and the constant draining but was hesitant because of the surgrery and the huge scars and healing time Ive read about here. So...I went to see Dr. Rosengart at Presby in Pittsburgh. He looked at it and asked if I wanted to take care of it now.... I said sure. He gave me a few numbing shots and within 15 minutes I was up and drove home for an hour. No pain...no huge scars. I got a bandaid...and was on my way. I actually had 2 cysts of which he said looked very "angry". But I was shocked at how easy he made it. It's been 2 weeks and no draing, no blood, no scars, no nothing. It was nothing at all....and it's done and over with!! I feel bad for the people who go through these big cuts and scars and healing. (I was catching baseball with my son that night!) Dr. Rosengart is excellent.. and very down to earth and nice. If I would have known how easy Dr. Rosengart made it...I would have done this years ago. There is no need for what some of you went through...or are going to go through. I had a very bad case and saw a few Drs. who wanted to do the same surgery as most have had here. Boy... am I glad I found Dr. Rosengart!!! My recovery took about 5 minutes. If you are in the area, do yourself a huge favor and go see him. IM SO GLAD THIS IS OVER WITH!!!

Talex,

What procedure did he use? Did you/Do you have pits?

Thanks

[Nomorepc]

Originally Posted by 20abc07

Hi, I am new here and wanted to know if anyone has gone to or knows if Dr. Rombeau is good and if they have had success with him. Thanks!

Did you ever end up visiting Dr. Rombeau? I am considering visiting him also.

[JDM454]

Hi all,

I just received my first dx of pilonidal abscess yesterday. I had it lanced after being up all night due to an extraordinarily painful inflammation. I've been reading everything on this site and after speaking to the doctors here it they mentioned that my case is fortunately not complicated, but that I should still seek a corrective procedure since probability of recurrence is high. I discussed pit picking today, and he'd not heard of this procedure, so he recommended exploring it further with someone familiar with it. I'm very interested in finding a good surgeon in the Philadelphia area that is skilled in less invasive methods (though if I truly need something more extensive, I'll have to go that route). I just have a couple questions that someone can hopefully help with:

1) anyone hear about/had experience with Dr. Rombeau?

2) for Dr. Caplan, what kinds of procedures have people received? looks like the list says cleft lift; does he also do pit picking in anyone's experience? also, I note that he's a plastic surgeon/neurosurgeon specifically, how'd he become involved with the pilonidal surgeries?

3) are there any other recommended doctors/specialists from Philly area people have worked with?

thanks alot fellow Pilonidal warriors!
~John

[Alex'sMom]

Originally Posted by 20abc07

Hi, I am new here and wanted to know if anyone has gone to or knows if Dr. Rombeau is good and if they have had success with him. Thanks!

Hi Folks,
My 16 year old son has the pilonidal cyst. He's had a previous surgery that failed. I saw Dr. Caplan's name in the list of PA surgeons & we saw him yesterday. I thought he was great. He does the cleft lift and his success rate is excellent. However I wanted to see whether someone would try the pit picking before we go to surgery and Dr. Caplan doesn't do pit picking. We have an appt. w/Dr. Rombeau on Monday and according to the list he does both pit picking and cleft lift. I'll see what he says.

[Alex'sMom]

Originally Posted by Nomorepc

Did you ever end up visiting Dr. Rombeau? I am considering visiting him also.

Hi JDM454,
Did you see Dr. Rombeau yet? My son has an appointment with him this coming Monday. I'm hoping he'll do the pit picking. I've been advised to look into that for Alex.

We saw Dr. Caplan and I am happy with him but I do want to check this option out since we were told my son might be an appropriate candidate.
Best of luck to you. Let me know how you make out.

[Jaredsmom]

Nomo,

Dr. Rosengart does both cleft lift and pit picking. We decided against the pit picking because of my son's deep cleft, and because it requires multiple visits, and we are 4 hours from Pittsburgh. It would have required too much travel, and not many forum members have had pit picking, so I was and am unsure of it's success rate.

I agree 100% with talex, whichever procedure you choose, Dr. rosengart is an excellent pilonidal surgeon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr. Rosengart did my son's cleft lift, and it was a very easy post op. He knows what he's doing, and I thank God we found him!!

My son is coming up on his two year anniversary of having his cleft lift....and he's still pilo free. 2 years!!!!

[Johnny 5]

Just wanted to follow up to see if anyone else has visited either of the Philly-area docs on the list, Dr. Caplan or Dr. Rombeau. I'm going to have to have my "little friend" taken care of soon, and just wanted to know which of these doctors I should go to; would particularly like to hear if anyone out there has seen both and has a preference.

Thanks!