# Need info about surgery with Dr. Patel Portland, OR
**URL:** https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/need-info-about-surgery-with-dr-patel-portland-or/23834
**Category:** Doctor Information
**Created:** [August 6, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/need-info-about-surgery-with-dr-patel-portland-or/23834 "2026-08-06T00:16:53Z")
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### Author:  [@kjl](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/u/kjl)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/need-info-about-surgery-with-dr-patel-portland-or/23834/1 "2026-08-06T00:16:53Z")
I am trying find someone who has had transcervical styloidectomy with Dr. Patel in Portland, OR. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Jammit](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/u/Jammit)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/need-info-about-surgery-with-dr-patel-portland-or/23834/2 "2026-08-31T04:50:28Z")
Did you get an answer? I was thinking about consulting him.
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### Author:  [@Isaiah\_40\_31](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/u/Isaiah_40_31)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/need-info-about-surgery-with-dr-patel-portland-or/23834/3 "2026-09-01T02:54:25Z")
@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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### Author:  [@Isaiah\_40\_31](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/u/Isaiah_40_31)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/need-info-about-surgery-with-dr-patel-portland-or/23834/4 "2026-09-01T02:58:58Z")
@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.