For a Norwood 4A balding pattern, 2500 grafts in a single session sounds like a reasonable number that might meet all of your needs, depending how large the area is. Most people have about 6,000-8,000 grafts available in their donor area, but the actual number may vary. That is why we measure everyone’s density to […]
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FUE in the 1500 graft range is a big procedure. Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) is a procedure you must be careful of when considering a hair transplant. A graft removed by FUE has a risk of being damaged when it is extracted. That damage can come from: grafts that have many transected hairs when they […]
I have performed the FOX Procedure (Follicular Unit Extraction / FUE) on many wavy/curly hair patients with great success. After shaving the hair down to a short buzz cut, most hairs will stand straight and show their angle as they exist in the skin. I will harvest the hair to the exact angle where the […]
Propecia is only for male patients treating male pattern baldness and it is the ideal drug to prevent or possibly reverse your hair loss. I would say that you are too young to consider any type of hair transplant. At the very least, you should try the medications and then develop a Master Plan for […]
Scarring is becoming less of a problem with the new method of closure we instituted a year and a half ago. Even for those who usually develop heavy scarring, we now have ways to treat these scars. The new technique for preventing scars is what I call a modified fascial closure to the area where […]
If you have lost the recently transplanted hair from the FUE, this is normal. The hair that remains may continue to grow. At 5 weeks, I would have expected that all of the crusts would be off. In my practice I get the crusts off in a week or less (often in the first few […]
Thanks for your kind words and for the new category idea. I’ll add a Post-Operative category now. The results of the FUE will take 5-8 months to show, so then and only then, will you know the value of what you had done. Minoxidil does cause dryness and flaking. Any non-alcoholic creams will work. Also, […]
What you are asking for is not unreasonable. The best way to get this would be Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), where single small, naturally occuring follicular units are extracted one-by-one directly from the donor area with a tiny punch. This leaves minimal scars and can support a super short hair cut. Send pictures and I […]
This technique is undocumented and has never been explained. This doctor has kept his process secret, including the yield and growth rate of the transplants. Woods has chosen to do his technique without any peer review and not publish it in recognized journals. By making his technique secret, he has succeeded in creating a mystique […]
With regard to FUE, the field is still new and most of what I read/hear is through the advertising of particular doctors who promote FUE. From an insider point of view, I suspect some doctors who promote their skills in this area are not able to do a competent job at FUE, but I am […]
Anyone who has a cut or break on the skin develops a scar. The proper question is, “Can the scar be seen in a routine social situation?” There is a surgery (developed and published by me in 2001) called Follicular Unit Extraction, or FUE for short — otherwise known as the FOX™ Procedure. With this […]
You are referring to the news item from April on the FOX Procedure, also known as Follicular Unit Extraction or FUE. This is a technique that I introduced in the medical literature in the summer of 2001, and published in 2002 in an article titled Follicular Unit Extraction: Minimally Invasive Surgery for Hair Transplantation. The […]
Part of what is important about being a doctor is the concept of mutual respect. The person who wrote the email to me on this blog, is analytical and clearly fully aware of the subject material. Good communication produces respect so a doctor should spend an appropriate amount of time and focused attention to address […]
In your doctor’s hand, if his comfortable number is 1000-1200 grafts, than that is what he should do. Seven hours of surgery is a lot, so the number he is quoting is reasonable for him. In our practice, we often perform 3000-4000 grafts in a single session and it takes usually about 5 hours or […]
I just got word that the news item about the FOX™ Procedure that aired this past Monday on NBC in Los Angeles is now going to air tonight (April 13) on the 11pm news on NBC 10 in Philadelphia. For those outside of the Philadelphia area, if you missed the airing in LA, or you […]
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