Category: Hair transplant FUT

The 54 years old Caucasian man had one session of 4,505 FUGs or 9,212 hair transplantation.He had androgenetic alopecia class V-VI [Norwood-Hamilton] and prefer to finish the frontal to mid scalp. His hair was salt and pepper color and little wavy. The frontal hairline was newly created with single hair units and detail of the transplantation are as follow: 1 hair 597 FUGs, 2 hair 2,861 FUGs,3 hair 433 FUGs. The left sideburn was filled with other 34 ,2 hair unit grafts.The photos were taken 7 months post-op.

The 62 years old male patient with NW class VII after 1 session of hair transplantation .The number of graft was 2,725 FUGs or 4,947 hairs.The patient had salt and pepper color hair, medium size and little wavy. The postop. pictures were taken 7 months after. The donor site experienced some effluvium but eventually the hair fully grew back.

The 48 year old man had one session of 2,995 FUGs or 5,436 hairs transplantation on his front and crown area. The hair is medium size, salt & pepper color and straight.

1-hair unit=654 FUGs

2-hair unit=2,241 FUGs

3-hair unit=100 FUGs

The donor area was closed with trichophytic closure and retention sutures were applied. The pictures show his result after 10 months follow up. The scar was minimal.

We have done ,again the megasession for the baldness class VI. He had good donor hair and average skin laxity. The hairline design was reasonably fit to his age.[try not to get it so low] The hair was salt and pepper in color. The parted side was on the left and we concentrated more number of grafts on that.

1 hair graft =615

2 hair graft =2,655

3 hair graft= 201

The patient has african type skin and hair, The hair is coarse and kinky. he has no previous history of hypertrophic scar. The scalp was quite loose and we could harvest as wide as 2 cm in the center of the strip. The follicles were curve as C-shape so it took a little longer for the cutting process. The grafts were inserted manually with both one-hand and two-hand technique. 30% of the grafts were using the curve needle for stick and place [mostly in the forelock area] He had little pain after surgery but could be abating with Tylenol. The swelling was not much as the pictuires showing his grafted area at day 5. One year after surgery, he was very happy with the result.The scar was invisible.

Dr. Pathomvanich – 70 years old male with fine and gray hair after three sessions 7,855 grafts ,15,382 hairs .The pictures were taken at 7 months after the last surgery.

Significant cosmetic improvement 1year 1 month after hair transplant surgery

31 year old Asian male, Norwood III with receding frontotemporal hairline , wanted to have flat and lower hair line, temple transplantation. He understood and responsible for lowering his hair line quite low against my advice. The total bald area measured 56 cm2 in both frontal and temple.

The ultra refined follicular unit grafting was done with strip technique and trichophytic closure.

The details of the hair transplantation are as follows: 1 hair: 339 FU grafts, 2 hair: 1447 FU grafts (2894hairs), 3 hair: 301 FU grafts (903 hairs) and 4 hair: 78 FU grafts(312 hairs). A total of 2165 follicular unit grafts, bearing 4448 hairs were transplanted over frontal area.

Both temples were restored with 1 hair: 70 FU grafts and 2 hair:100FU grafts(200 hairs) on left side and 1 hair:70 FU grafts and 2 hair:100 FU grafts ( 200 hairs) on right side.

The patient was followed at 1 year 1 month post operative with good growth and significant cosmetic improvement. His donor area has minimal scar as shown in the photographs.

Significant cosmetic improvement 11 months after hair transplant surgery

43 year old Asian male, Norwood III Vertex with receding frontotemporal hairline, thinning of hairs at crown wanted to have flat and lower hair line, temple and vertex transplantation. He understood and responsible for lowering his hair line quite low against my advice. The total bald area measured 181 cm2 at frontal, temple and crown.

The ultra refined follicular unit grafting was done with strip technique and trichophytic closure.

The details of the hair transplantation are as follows:

Frontal area: 1 hair: 388 FU grafts, 2 hair: 1286 FU grafts (2572hairs) and 3 hair: 657 FU grafts (1971 hairs) . A total of 2331 follicular unit grafts, bearing 4931 hairs were transplanted .

Temple area: 1 hair: 50 FU grafts and 2 hair:150FU grafts(300 hairs) on left side and 1 hair:50 FU grafts and 2 hair:150 FU grafts ( 300 hairs) on right side were transplanted.

Crown area: 800 of 2 hair FU grafts bearing 1600 hairs were transplanted.

Total of 3531 FU grafts bearing 7231 hairs were transplanted.

The patient was followed at 11 months post operative with good growth and significant cosmetic improvement. His donor area has minimal scar as shown in the photographs.

The Chinese man age 48 under went the hair transplantation with Dr.Pathomvanich at DHT clinic, Bangkok. He had black hair, coarse and straight. He needed to have to dense packing in the front and reconstruction of the temples. Dr.Pathomvanich used the strip technique with Trichophytic closure.The total number of graft was 2,543 FUGs or 4,221 hairs. The 200 FUGs were spent to both temples. Consider the photos taken 1 year after surgery, with wet hair , we can see the full growth of the transplanted hairs.

A 39 year-old Caucasian male had receding hair line and baldness at crown with thinning at the top.The recipient area measured 103 cm2. He had good donor hairs. He underwent hair transplantation on January 29th 2010 and a total of 3883 grafts (8270 hairs ) were transplanted.

The front 2182 grafts : 1 hair grafts = 547, 2 hairs grafts= 1235, 3 hairs grafts =400

The crown 1701 grafts : 2 hairs graft= 1050, 3 hairs graft= 651