Large Sessions
Here’s a question I get quite a bit from people that just start doing their research…
Hi Dr Rassman,
I have been reading a little about hair transplantation but I am still very new to this stuff. I was wondering why all hair doctors can’t transplant a high number of grafts in a single procedure?
Not all physician teams are equal. In our medical group, we (NHI) pioneered the large graft session transplanting as many as 4400 grafts in 1994. So performing a large hair transplant session is a function of experience and the skill of the surgeon and his team. If a doctor routinely performs sessions in the 3000+ graft size, then it would be safe to assume that this doctor has mastered the skills required for large session. Unfortunately, not all doctors have either the teams or the skills to accomplish the feat on a routine basis. For us, we have been doing sessions of over 3000 grafts for almost a dozen years and are performing sessions of this size almost every day. If a doctor must limit the size of the session to under 2000 grafts, it may take more surgical sessions to accomplish the same goal as when twice the number is transplanted.
My hairline has been receding for a number of years, I am now 62 and recently had a heart attack. It seems to me that the hair loss has accelerated since that trauma. My hair now has sort of a trough down the middle that was not there before, but it was thinning. My question is, Can a heart attack cause acceleration of hair loss and can hair replacement techniques be employed to reverse it? Thank You
Heart attacks and stress can accelerate hair loss.
Thanks for your information, I’m going to take a wait and see approach.