Need info about surgery with Dr. Patel Portland, OR

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I am trying find someone who has had transcervical styloidectomy with Dr. Patel in Portland, OR. Thank you!

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Did you get an answer? I was thinking about consulting him.

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@kjl - I’m sorry no one replied to your question about Dr. Patel. I know he prefers the intraoral approach but will do the transcervical approach if pressed to do so. Have you gone to see him yet?

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@Jammit - Dr. Patel requires his ES patients have a ultrasound guided injection of lidocaine + cortisone into the tonsil area to see if symptoms reduce that route before he’ll commit to doing surgery. Our experience on this forum is that is not a reliable way to determine whether surgery will or will not help reduce/eradicate ES symptoms. Some people get great symptoms relief from the injection, some get worse pain from it & for others it has no effect one way or the other. Our feeling is, if a person has elongated styloids &/or calcified stylohyoid ligaments & the symptoms those can cause, then the diagnosis is most likely ES & that sort of testing is unnecessary.

Now that I’ve said all that, if Dr. Patel is local for you, it would be worthwhile seeing him for a consult so you can draw your own conclusion as to whether he seems a good fit for you.

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