Grafts in recipient area not placed flush with the skin

Some people have complained about cobblestonning or irregularities of the skin in the recipient area after a hair transplant. This is an example of a technique used frequently, where the doctor’s team left the grafts stick out of the skin. When it heals, sometimes the skin edge of the graft heals elevated from the surface of the scalp and this is what many patients complain about.  See picture of patient 9 days after a hair transplant and you can see that the grafts are all sticking out of the scalp and it is not cosmetically pleasing. Also for comparison, take a look at one of our patients compared side by side also 9 days after surgery with dense packing of the grafts but as you can see from the photo on the right, the two patients are night and day for comparison. I am showing this because you should demand this type of post operative appearance because you have to be social and can’t look like a freak like the guy on the left.