A 28 year-old male from Ethiopia had receding of both temples as in Norwood III. He had extreme curly hair with density 76 grafts/cm2 and underwent hair transplantation on Sept 22, 2011. A total of 1763 grafts (1 hair graft= 276 grafts, 2-hairs graft=1257 grafts, 3 hairs graft = 230 grafts) or 3480 hairs were transplanted. He was seen 6 months post op and was very pleased with the result with minimal donor scar.
30-year old male from Middle East has extensive hair loss from front toward the crown with dense miniaturized hair at the bridge and good donor hairs at back. His hair is coarse, black, wavy. He wanted to transplant only the front part due to limited budget. He had hair transplant on July 21st, 2011 and had a total of 1971 grafts or 5133 hairs (1-hair= 200, 2-hairs=947, 3-hairs=446, 4-5 hairs=378 grafts). The insertion was difficult due to increased bleeding, popping, and slippery grafts. He returned after 12 months post-op with good growth and was happy with the results as shown.
Here is a 42 years old white male who has receding fronto-temporal hair line and has good donor hair. He wanted to lower the hair line and reconstruct both temples. He underwent hair transplantation on Dec 10th,2010.The balding area measured roughly 50 cm2, 2,784 grafts were transplanted (1 hair graft=626,2 hairs grafts=1786,3 hairs graft=462, total number of hairs=5584).His post op pictures were taken at one year 7 months as seen below included the donor scar.
58 years old white male, known history of toxic goiter and on Synthroid for the last decade and symptom free. He has receding fronto- temporal hair line and baldness at the crown and wanted to have his hair line restore first and crown later. His hairs are weavy, dark brown, coarse hair with good density. He underwent hair transplantation since Dec 25th,06 and just returned for follow up on Nov 20th,12 six years later and complaint of some progressive hair loss. He didn’t take Finasteride or Minoxidil due to site effect. His balding area measured 79 cm2 included the temple. A total of 2724 grafts ( 5958 hairs) were transplanted to the front and temple. Below are pre and post op pictures were taken six years later. He is planning to have further session at crown and add some density at front next year due to his budget constrain.
A 29-year-old white male who has receding hair line, deep temporal angles, markedly thinning hair at the front and some thinning at crown. He has a coarse, black and wavy hair with good donor density and average laxity. He underwent hair transplantation on February 8th, 2012 with a total of 2756 grafts (5759 hairs) 1-hair=548 grafts,2-hairs=1637 grafts, 3-hairs=347 grafts, 4-hair= 224 grafts were transplanted in 61 cm2. Below are pre and post operative pictures that were taken 10 months after surgery. He is very happy with the result, the donor scar is minimal.
48 years old caucasian male who have receding hair line to mid scalp and central crown baldness as in Norwood V.He has good donor hair and wanted only the frontal transplanted. He underwent hair transplantation as follow: 1hair=680 grafts,2hairs=2,165 grafts,3hairs=329 grafts total 3,174grafts(5,997 hairs)
Below are B/A one year after surgery with good result and now he wants to come back and work on his crown in the future.
Significant cosmetic improvement 6 months after hair transplantation
A 38 years old Asian male who has receding frontotemporal hairline and thinning hair from the front towards the crown with good donor hair. The total thinning/balding area measured 187 cm2. The ultra-refined follicular unit grafting was done from the front to mid scalp with strip technique and trichophytic closure.
The details of the hair transplantation are as follows:
1-hair: 557 FU grafts, 2-hair: 1826 FU grafts (3652hairs), 3-hair: 396 FU grafts (1188 hairs) and 3-4-hair: 247 FU grafts (865 hairs). A total of 3026 follicular unit grafts, bearing 6262 hairs were transplanted.
The patient has been taking Finasteride 1mg and 5% Minoxidil lotion 1cc twice daily post op.
The patient was followed at 6 months post-operative with good growth and significant cosmetic improvement. His donor area has minimal scar as shown in the photographs.
A 39-year-old Asian female with a high hair line wanted to narrow her forehead by doing hair restoration. The total recipient area was measured 53 cm2 at the front.
The ultra refined follicular unit grafting was done with strip technique and trichophytic closure.
The detail of the hair transplantation is as follows:
Frontal area: 1 hair: 615 FU grafts, 2 hair: 1,542 FU grafts, 3 hair: 262 FU grafts
A total of 2,419 follicular unit grafts consisting of 4,485 hairs.
The patient was followed at 2 years post-operatively with a good hair growth and significant cosmetic improvement by lowering her hair line. Her donor area has a minimal scar as shown in the photographs.
41 years old white male who has receding hair line and thinning at crown, requested FUE hair transplantation. He wanted only to restore his hair line. He underwent FUE hair transplantation 1543 grafts/3503 hairs (1-hair=250 grafts, 2-hairs=626 grafts,3-hairs=667 grafts) . Below are his before and after, 14 months after surgery with good result.
39 years old Asian male who has extensive hair loss from the front toward the back with dense miniaturized hair at front and top,the donor hairs were average with density 70 grafts/cm2. He underwent hair transplantation on May 23,12, 3094 grafts were transplanted (361 one-hair graft,2234 two-hairs graft,290 three-hairs graft,209 four-hairs graft, a grand total of 6535 hairs.
Below are his B/A taken on July 13,13 or 14 months after surgery with good result. He is planning to have the crown transplant next month.