Farscalpe at the seminar

Dear readers,
Farscalpe is the nickname of a forum poster from N. America.

He had undergone a 5900 + FUSE graft procedure in Dec 2006.
He visited us for further transplants in Nov 2007 and was kind enough to be a part of the seminar.
He is a Norwood 6 and keeps his hair buzz cut.
People quizzed him and examined his donor and recipient areas minutely to look for any visible scarring.

Of the 5900 grafts, only approx. 1900 grafts were from the scalp donor areas. The rest were from the different body donor areas (chest, abdomen, lower limbs etc.).

You may view excerpts of the videorecording featuring Farscalpe at the HT seminar on 1 Nov 2007.
His face has been blurred in the video at his request.




Regards,
Dr.A's Clinic

Eric at the hair transplant seminar

Dear readers,
Eric Gomes has undergone multiple hair transplant procedures including strip FUHT, stitchless FUSE/fue, body and beard hair to scalp transplants to keep pace with his slowly progressing hairloss. 4000+ follicular unit grafts till present.

He was present for live interaction with public at the hair transplant seminar held on 1 Nov 2007.

Below are some video excerpts of the seminar featuring Eric.





Regards,
Dr. A's Clinic.

Shiv shares and shows his HT results at seminar

Dear readers,
One of the patients present at the hair transplant live seminar was Shiv.

Shiv had undergone 1500 FUHT and 87 body hair grafts.
He met with many members of the public and press who examined him closely.

He also met the Congress MP and spokesperson Mr. Rashid Alvi.

Before HT pictures


A video recording showing the excerpts can be seen below.

Following are some pictures from the seminar.

In the meantime, if you have any queries, please email them to us at hairadvise101@yahoo.com

Dr. A's Clinic.

Finallyfree ( NW 6 with 11,000 + grafts ) - Nov 2007 update

Finallyfree was Norwood 6 stage hairloss patient when he first visited us.
He has undergone 11,000 + grafts in successive procedures utilizing scalp, body and beard donor hair. His future procedures are scheduled to thicken the crown area.

Below is a video recording we took when he visited us recently. In the videorecording, you can see Finallyfree combing his hair as well as the comb being used to part the transplanted hair in different ways to show the naturalness and the density.

The first is a medium definition video. The second the third are parts of the high definition video.

Medium Quality Video clip

High Quality Video clip (part 1)

High Quality Video clip (part 2)

Another video of 5000 + FUHT procedure

The video of 5000 + FUHT result shows comb moving through transplanted hair. This helps see the real density that has been acheived.

5000 + FUHT grafts (result video and pictures)

Dear Viewers,

The patient, nicknamed Engineer, underwent 5000 + FUHT grafts procedure (in 2 sessions).

The following is a video of the result.





Video with wet hair using comb

BHT and scalp FUSE grafts test - 14 mths update

Dear Readers,

Prakash opted for test sessions from the chest hair grafts and the scalp hair grafts in two distinct identifiable areas.More than 14 months have elapsed.He is happy with the growth and has opted to go for mostly BHT with some scalp hair for further sessions.

This time he is going for 700 grafts (mostly from the abdomen with approx 100 from the scalp to make the matrix/scaffolding). Those will be used to create a forelock.


Before Pictures

After 14 months

Video - After 14 months

Hair Transplant Seminar Highlights

Dear Readers,
We held a live hair transplant patient interaction seminar on first of November 2007. It was the first of its kind in Asia.
It featured a discussion of the different various advances in hair restoration surgery.
Including
- body hair to scalp transplants,
- beard hair to scalp transplants,
- strip megassion with triclosure and,
- the stitchless FUSE/FUE method.

Volunteer patients who had undergone these procedures were present giving potential patients, and public, an opportunity to examine them closely and see the results firsthand.
This was a great oppurtunity and we express our gratitude to all thevolunteer patients who took time to come & interact with other people suffering hairloss. For those who where unable to attend the live patient seminar, the uploaded video will be a useful tool for researching hair restoration options.
The video shows just brief highlights of the seminar.




To view high resolution video of seminar highlights, please play click on the URL link below.

http://www.mediamax.com/hairadvise/Hosted/aa.mpg

We have received numerous requests for making the video of the complete seminar available online. We are in the process of doing that. Meantime, we thank you for your patience.
Regards,
Dr.A’s clinic

Crown v/s Frontal HT - alternate approaches

Dear readers,
A long time request of patients is to give as much priority to the crown/swirl area as to the frontal/hairline areas.
Till the scalp donor resources were limited, the obvious choice was to keep the bulk of the grafts for the frontal areas. With advent of FUSE, triclosure, BHT and facial hair to scalp transplants (FHT), the expanded donor resources enable alternative transplanting approaches in suitable patients.
The approach is to use scalp donor hair& various body donor hairs to accomplish hair restoration in crown/ swirl area as well as frontal area.
For sake of convenience, we shall be reffering this patient by nickname SH.
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Following are some pre operative pictures of SH.






The patient has 3 options in grafting.
1. To go for a hairline favoring HT. A low wide hairline proceeding back towards the top and crown.
2. To go for a crown HT with a very conservative hairline.
3. To go for a complete transplant including a ambitiously vigorous hairline as well as working in the top and crown.

Option 1 and 2 are possible using the scalp donor hair alone (by strip or by fue).

Option 3 will require a combination of FUHT and FUSE as well as BHT and FHT to complete the graft requirements for all areas at reasonable densities. Of course, Option 3 can be followed in stages too.
This patient,SH, opted for a full length strip FUHT procedure in his first session of HT. SH wanted more focus on the crown area. As a result, the hairline had to be suitably conservative.


The following pictures illustrate the design.

The swirl/ crown area has been used as the back anchor point for HT design.





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Videoclip of SH pre preoperative procedure:



SH got 4400 grafts in his FUHT procedure. These grafts were transplanted in the crown, vertex area and a very conservative hairline was formed. Below is the picture taken post operatively.


To get a full restoration,the best way is to get a somewhat low hairline(if you prefer that)and fill as much of the head as possible with strip procedure. Once you have stripped yourself out then go to FUE and get as many FUE grafts as possible to fill the rest of the head. The front being the most dense and fading back into the crown. Finally any areas that are thin fill in with body hair. The body hair works best as filler.

After 10 days post operatively.
SH visit 10 days after his HT. The following pictures depict the look of the scalp at 10 days post HT.