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Do you recommend or have any clinical experience with "migraine surgery"?

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Neurology · UPMC

I do not as well. My understanding is that most of the plastic surgeons who perform this procedure have been trained by Dr. Bahman Guyuron, who developed the procedure. I think the published studies by Dr. Guyuron, showing some efficacy of this procedure, have a flawed methodology, and I do not thin...

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Neurology · Greater Boston Headache Center at Boston Advanced Medicine

I do not recommend surgery for my migraine patients, except occasionally minimally corrective endoscopic nasal surgery for removal of a bony contact, such as a spina coming off a deviated septum that sticks, very much like a splinter, into a turbinate. The surgery would always be part of comprehensi...

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Neurology · Brown Neurology

I practiced in Cleveland for several years and had patients pursue this route of therapy with mixed results. My patient outcomes didn't match the study results cited above but a few patients did extremely well. It's not a therapy I would routinely recommend.

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