Following is a picture of his scalp donor area.
The first issue in front of the doctor and the patient is over the choice of the procedure. Should the surgery be another strip or another FUE or a combination of both. Hairwar does not have much robust body hair.
Due to Hairwar’s previous bad experience with fue, he opted for a strip FUHT.
In the strip FUHT, we aimed to excise some strip scars while still managing to get grafts to perform the repair procedure in the recipient area.
A total of 3080 grafts were extracted and transplanted.
The grafts were used to recreate the temple areas and to fill up the front, the hairline and the top areas. No grafts were transplanted into the crown area.
No, those are scars from a form of FUE practiced in the late 80’s/early 90’s in which a “hand engine” was used to remove circular patches of scalp with 20-50 follicular units in each circular patch. This tool looked like an electric drill with a cylindrical blade. The tool was used to make both donor and recipient sites - hence the “plug” look came about. It is only related to FUE in the sense that the donor grafts were small (smaller than a harvested strip) and circular. This was believed to be cutting edge technology at the time. I almost fell for it in my local dermatologist’s office.
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» That scarring was from FUE?? Looks like strip scars. Who was the doc?
Dear chiahead,
Hairwar had 5 strip scars from 5 previous strip surgeries that had resulted in a pluggy hairline.
The procedure performed in hairwar’s repair involved excising 2 adjacent strip scars (including the hair bearing scalp in between).
The 3080 grafts, thus obtained, were used to refine the hairline and add density to the frontal third.
Now that i look at the pics again, They do look like strip scars. The uppermost scar looks like the typical circular scarring indicative of the the type of procedure I mentioned above because of the apparent gaps in the scar. Either way, the previous surgeon was supposed to incorporate the old scars into the new strip, which he obviously did not do.
Dear forum readers,
The following videoclip shows the hair being combed in different directions and parted at various points. To show the density as well as the lack of the former pluggy appearance.
» Thanks for sharing Dr A and ‘Hairwar’.
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» (1) Dr A- The after pics are after how many months?
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» (2) Does ‘Hairwar’ also have temporal side pics to share?
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