How to Fix a Pluggy Hairline (with Photos)

From time to time, I get emails from men that are incredibly embarrassed about the results they got from an old, pluggy hair transplant. They’re so embarrassed that they request I don’t even publish their emails (even if there’s nothing identifiable in there)… and that’s fair enough. So I just wanted to write a post to quickly explain the best way to fix a pluggy hairline: you need to cut out the plugs and then put transplants in the place the plugs originally were. This is generally done in two sessions (8-10 weeks apart) and we have been doing this for years. It turned out that this man’s scar (from excising the grafts) healed very well, so well that it could not be detected. I put hair wide enough in front of where the scar was so that his hairline was lowered quite a bit. We built a wide transition zone in the leading frontal edge. Here is such a case on a man with black hair.

Before on the left, after on the right. Click the photos below to enlarge.

There’s another plug repair case at the NHI site — Dean’s Story. Be warned, some of the photos there contain surgical content, so if you have a weak stomach, you may want to avoid that link.