Craig Brendon Birgfeld, MD

Dr. Birgfeld put my 22 year-old son back together after he dove into a dock and shattered his forehead. Evan was in surgery about 6 hours and overnight at Harborview. Dr. Birgfeld and his amazing team repaired his brow bone, rebuilt his sinus, etc. through a tiny incision in the eyecrease. Dr. Birgfeld was totally amazing - years later I can still remember his gentle very reassuring bedside manner. His assistants were equally exceptional. Dr. Birgfeld is truly gifted and we in the Northwest are blessed to have such a skillful and talented medical professional.

What can I say about Dr. Birgfeld that hasn't been said already? He is an amazing doctor. Not only is his bedside manner compassionate but his work is wonderful. His approach to our infant son's surgery was well planned, well researched and very thoughtful. I was amazed at how quickly our three month old recovered and how well he looked in such a short time. We are thrilled he is our little guy's surgeon. He has taken such good care of our family. Thank you Dr. Birgfeld!

Our family has been so Blessed to have Dr. Birgfeld as our daughter's surgeon. She was born with a significant bilateral cleft lip and palate she is 5 years old. (so far she has had 6 surgeries with Dr. Birgfeld.) He has done such a wonderful job with Tammy. We fully and totally trust that he always has our daughter's best interest at heart. He has a gift for explaining procedures so that we fully understand the scope of the procedures and the reasons behind them. We have seen the amazing results. He has such a caring way with his patients. We could never express our appreciation and gratitude enough. Now that Tammy is getting older and has had so many surgeries it gets harder and harder to tell her the next one is coming up (she will be having surgery again in 4 days)so when she looks at me with those eyes and tells me "I won't be ready on Tuesday and I don't want you to leave the surgery room" my heart sank. I tell her "I am not allowed to stay with her during surgery" so the only thing I could think to say was "Dr. Birgfeld will be with you." At that moment she felt very comforted knowing that he was going to be with her. My daughter Tammy holds a very special spot in her heart for Dr. Birgfeld. I can say with confidence that we recomend Dr. Birgfeld but most importantly Tammy recomends Dr. Birgfeld.

Dr. Birgfeld is a wonderful surgeon. He did my 5 month old sons cleft lip repair and we are now 1.5 weeks post-op and you can't tell that he had surgery at all. He is very calm and compassionate. He was very reassuring that everything would come out perfectly, and it has.

Dr. Bergfeld is an amazing surgeon! My son has had facial trauma to his eye and through his procedures completed here at children's hospital he is doing great. Dr. bergfeld has done an outstanding job on winning my confidence as a parent that he would take good care of my son and that the surgery would be successful!

We are a military family, thus the international address. At the time of our son's surgery, we lived in Northwest Washington. My dear son, James, is now 1 year post-op. He had his metopic craniosynostosis repair done by Dr. Birgfeld and Dr. Ojemann (neurosurgery) on Dec. 1, 2009. Of course, the surgery and recovery was an incredibly stressful time for my family, but Dr. Birgfeld and James' entire surgical team were amazing. James' healed so well after his surgery with minimal swelling and discomfort; he is now a happy, healthy, very active toddler. Nobody would ever guess he had such an intense operation at 9 months of age just by looking at him. His head is perfectly shaped; there are no fears of ICP now that the fused suture has been repaired by such expert hands. If you find yourself at Seattle Children's Craniofacial Clinic and Dr. Birgfeld is your surgeon, rest assured that you are in great hands.