This is another Turkey patient who was over-harvested. The amount of hair taken from the donor area exceeded what the donor density would support, a common problem when FUE grafts are pushed higher and higher. To make matters worse, the non-permanent zone was harvested as well, so many of the grafts that were harvested are […]
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Clearly from the photo, you have significant over-harvesting present. Some of this may be shock loss if the surgery was recent, but if it is more than 6 months, it is permanent. The two pictures show the same patient, with long hair on the left and shaved on the right. The only thing you can […]
Sometines it is difficult to tell the difference between over-harvesting and shock loss of the donor area. After the donor area recovers in about 6 months you will know.
Your donor area is clearly over-harvested and this will be a problem that only scalp micropigmentation can solve, see here: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/scar-covering/. Some doctors just don’t get it and many doctors think because they can perform a successful FUE, that they understand what they are doing. More and more doctor are entering this field today for the […]
Many people can not tolerate 5,000 FUE grafts taken from the donor area without ending up with donor area depletion and donor area balding with problems similar to what your photo shows. I am afraid you may be in that situation. If this continues to be a problem by the fifth month, you may need to look into Scalp MicroPigmentaiton […]
This patient had an FUE megassession surgery. When harvesting the FUE grafts, the surgeon must recognize the size of the donor area and limit the FUE extraction to the permanent zone as outlined in this FUE patient photo. The doctor who did the surgery on the patient in the photo did not understand the limits […]
This patient had a localized harvest of his donor area with FUE. The area extended outside the permanent zone of hair which means that the patient has had hair moved from areas which are not permanent and that the harvest with FUE may have been too great. We see this complication of large FUE sessions, […]
The official publication date for this new patent titles “HAIR HARVESTING DEVICE AND METHOD WITH LOCALIZED SUBSURFACE DERMAL FLUID INSERTION” (Patent number #9,259,236 B1) was officially published by the U.S. Patent Office on February 16, 2016. It describes a method to inject fluid into a localized area of the hair follicular unit, to make FUE […]
Maximum number of grafts in one session is dependent on the exam. Doctor needs to determine your hair density and scalp elasticity for maximum harvest. Every person is different and with each surgery the maximum number changes. The maximum number can be a high as 6000 grafts but this is not typical.
If you are familiar with New Hair Institute and Dr. Rassman’s (founder) work, he is the doctor who started the “Mega-Session” 3000+ grafts hair transplants back in in 1995 See Link: https://baldingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/mp-1995-megasessions.pdf Being able to provide a 5000 graft surgery has TWO factors. 1) Man power and the expertise to coordinate such a surgery. * […]
Dr. Bill Reed, a hair transplant surgeon in San Diego, California, wrote the following piece in an email to a group of doctors. I asked him if he would allow me to share it with our readership, and he agreed.
It is not considered plucked hair when you are using follicular unit grafts. That sounds like a regular hair transplant procedure. The pulled graft/hair will not grow back from its ‘plucked’ place. It is no longer considered hair multiplication. If one believes that adding ACell to a hair transplant procedure for better growth, it needs […]
If you find that you have a scar from your donor harvest that you find is unacceptable, these options need to be discussed with a competent doctor. The scar often has ridging from the nature of the closure and that will be determined by the doctor who evaluates you. Scars from the donor area are […]
For whatever reason, we seem to receive questions about the same topic in clusters. One week, I’ll get a bunch of Rogaine questions… the next week, it’s Propecia time. This week, I got a few about the strip technique versus follicular unit extraction (FUE). I found a nice article on the ISHRS site that compares […]
I have done several beard to hair transplants and they are relatively easy, but I really don’t know if the beard contains 7600 movable grafts. Is it possible? I suppose. Some people may have very high density hair in their beard.
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