Jeff C Rastatter, MD

I wouldn’t put my daughter in the hands of just any surgeon, but after meeting Dr Rastatter I knew she would be in very capable hands. I first visited Dr. Rastatter’s office after noticing my daughter was starting to sound like Darth Vader and thought she may need her adenoids removed. Dr Rastatter took one look in her nose and suggested that she did indeed need them removed since they were blocking about 90% of her nose. Poor baby!
The following month we were one of the first patients in the new Children’s Hospital. My 19 month old didn’t really know what was going on, but I was a nervous mess since she’d never been under anesthesia before. In fact, she’d never even been on antibiotics or anything before!
Fortunately, Dr Rastatter made sure the procedure was as painless as possible (for both me and my little one). The entire procedure took no longer than 30 minutes and I’ll admit I had a slight heart attack when my phone rang halfway thru the surgery and it was the Dr himself calling. He reassured my husband right away that everything was going well, but inquired if we wanted to also remove our daughter’s tonsils since they looked much bigger than when she had been his office the month earlier. We asked for his expert opinion and he said if it was his own kid (and he has a little one close in age) he’d wait to see if they shrink on their own since tonsil removal can be a bit surgery for such a little one. We took him up on his advice and asked him to remove just the adenoids (as originally planned).
Minutes later he came out and informed us that everything had gone well… and our little one was waiting in recovery for us. She was a little groggy for the rest of the day, but was running around and completely back to normal by the very next morning. Dr Rastatter’s office also called a few times over the next few weeks to check-​up on her.
Most importantly I’ve noticed a big improvement in my daughter’s health since the surgery. She can breathe thru her nose again, is sleeping amazingly well (although she was always a pretty good sleeper), isn’t breathing thru her mouth as heavily and has had fewer colds. I’ glad we went thru with the surgery and even more thrilled that we found such a fantastic pediatric ENT to do it! I’m do hoping her tonsils shrink on their own, but if she does end up having to get them removed we’ll be repeat patients of Dr Rastatter’s.