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Sunil - 5300+ FUHT grafts (13 months update)

Dear readers,
Sunil had a 5315 FUHT grafts in Aug 2007. He also had 110 beard hair grafts transplanted to scalp in the same 1 day session.
He is very happy with his HT.

Following are pictures and video of his progress 13 months after his hair transplant.

Mahi - 5625 FUHT grafts at Dr. A's clinic (Full video)

Dear viewers,
We decided to subject our patient, Mahi's, hairtransplant to different kinds of tests or situations in everyday life.
We have recorded his videoclips in various day to day situations. Like,in the market or after a shampoo and shower. We now present his complete video recording while undergoing a haircut and styling by the famous celebrity hairstylist Jawed Habib.


Mahi's complete haircut video from arvind poswal on Vimeo.

Mahi's Haircut by Habib (concluding part)

Dear viewers,
This is the concluding part of the video showing haircut and styling of our patient Mahi. Thanks to modern ultra refined all follicular unit hair transplants, patients suffering from hairloss can not only get hair, the transplanted hair also looks very natural.

Note: Mahi has gone for a young looking, non conservative hairline. He plans future hair transplants to fill in the crown-swirl area. We will keep you posted of his progress.




Mahi's haircut by Habib from arvind poswal on Vimeo.

Mahi's Haircut by Habib

Dear readers,

We decided to subject our patient,Mahi's, hairtransplant to different kinds of tests or situations in everyday life.
We have recorded his videoclips in various day to day situations. Like,in the market or after a shampoo and shower. We now present his video recording while undergoing a haircut and styling by the famous celebrity hairstylist Jawed Habib.

Mahi's hair transplant undergoes the shampoo test

Dear viewers,

Welcome on behalf of Dr. A's centre for hair restoration. Modern hair transplants have the capacity to give very natural appearance.
We decided to showcase one of our results of hair transplant.

In this and successive videos we will subject the transplanted hair to different day to day life situations. Here the patient, Mahi is shown in G. K. Part 2, M block Market.
He goes to the famous Habib's saloon for a haircut.

Rajesh - 1886 FUSE grafts (scalp + body) - 17 month update

Dear readers,

Rajesh (a former poster patient) exemplifies the avenues open for those losing hair at a young age. He is 24 years of age now.

He had participated in the live patient seminar in Nov 2007.

He had a buzz cut at the time. You may view him on the video loaded on our blog at

http://hairtransplantcentre.blogspot.com/2007/11/hair-transplant-seminar-highlights.html

In July 2008, he visited us for review.



Rajesh - Before pictures







After - 17 month pictures











Rajesh - video 1



Rajesh - video 2

Repair HT (2000 FUHT grafts) - Dr. A's clinic

Dear Readers,

Patient Name - Alan Ingle
Patient particulars - A Caucasian in his 40s.
Light colored hair with less hair - skin color contrast.

He is happy with the outcome of the repair HT.
In his words - "I no longer have to worry about anyone suspecting that I had a hair transplant."

Before picture (2005)



After Picture (2008)

Picture in natural daylight (No flash used)


Alan Ingle's actual surgery was discussed at the following link (his pre op and immediately post op pictures are available at the link)

http://www.hairsite4.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=12&topic_id=25247&mode=full

Alan Ingle's post HT testimonial can be read at

http://www.hairsite4.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=12&topic_id=25177&mesg_id=25177&page=68

Repair HT (2000 FUHT grafts) - 3 years update

Pictures in bright office light condition (No flash used)





Picture under bright daylight (no flash used)



Video

Rex - 2600 FUHT grafts (repair HT) 1 year update

Dear Readers,

Patient - Rex
Age - 40's
Race - West Asia
Norwood stage - 6 (if patient had no transplants ever)

The patient nicknamed Rex visited us last year, 2007, with a situation, we find increasingly too often in repair patients.

Before visiting us, he underwent a strip Follicular unit hair transplant at another centre 3 years ago.

Even though follicular unit grafts were transplanted, the results and HT planning left a lot to be desired.

I shall discuss the things that were done incorrectly, in Rex's HT 3 years ago. I hope reading about them will educate upcoming clinics/doctors as to what they should not do.

But first, some pictures and video

video

From now on, we shall have a soundtrack along with the videos.

The current video has background commentary briefly explaining about the procedure. I hope the viewers will find that helpful.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions to further improve the result presentations.



Before pictures











Intraoperative pictures





After 1 + year pictures (?unconventional hairstyle)

I know Rex's hairstyle is a bit unconventional. However, it seems that this hair style suits his purposes well for the present.

Hair Transplant in stages - 900 + FUSE grafts

Dear readers,
Many among you have voiced a question.
What if we wish to go for smaller initial sessions of hair transplants?

The reasons have been varied -
1. A desire to know how natural and safe the outcome is, firsthand.
2. Not to make too drastic a change in appearance.
3. Financial reasons.

Whatever may be your reason to opt for a smaller session, we respect it.
Its advisable, as far as possible, that the smaller sessions be performed by the stitchless FUSE/fue method (rather than the strip FUHT method).

The patient case discussed in this post is one such.
He wished to go for a smaller initial session.
He is happy with the outcome and plans to go for larger session now.

For reasons of maintaining the patient confidentiality, we have changed his name and shall refer to him as Ram.

Ram underwent a 900+ scalp FUSE grafts session, 9 months ago.
The grafts were transplanted in a location where the patient could monitor their growth but were not to visible to onlookers.

The following is a self explanatory picture sequence.

Before
After 9 months
Before
After 9 months

The following is a brief video that shows the recipient area before and 9 months after.


In case of any queries, you may contact us at hairadvise@yahoo.com

Hair Transplant Seminar - Dr. A's Clinic

Dr. A's Clinic held a live hair transplant patient interaction seminar on 1 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.

Live volunteer patients who had undergone hair restoration procedures were present for interaction with press and members of public.

For those who could not attend the seminar, following is the live recording of it.

In case you experience any difficulty in viewing these videos, please email us at hairadvise101@yahoo.com


Seminar Video (Part 1)

5315 FUHT +110 beard grafts- Sunil

Dear readers,
Sunil had 5315 FUHT grafts and 110 beard hair grafts in a single day session in August 2007.




This video below shows him running his fingers through his hair in different directions.



Sunil's 5 month update can be veiwed at
http://hairtransplantcentre.blogspot.com/2008/01/5315-fuht-110-beard-grafts-sunil-5_14.html
Sunil's procedure pictures can be seen at
http://hairtransplantcentre.blogspot.com/2007/08/5315-fuht-110-beard-grafts-sunil.html


You may click on the self explanatory photo chart below to view large before and 8 months after pictures of Sunil.





Regards,
Dr. A's Clinic

Hair war - a repair case update

Dear 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.



Hairwar is the net name of a poster on various hairloss related discussion forums. He is a Caucasian from Europe. His journey through hair transplants as well as his experiences may help other HT aspirants to plan their hair restoration procedure.
A brief history - Hairwar is presently in his mid thirties. He first noticed hair loss in 1993.
In 1995, he had 2 strip hair transplant surgeries (about 300 grafts in each session), in Switzerland.
In 1996, he had 2 more strip surgeries within 2 weeks gap at another clinic in Switzerland (again about 300 grafts in each session).
In 1997, he had 1 more strip surgery (600 grafts) in Switzerland.
In 2004, hairwar had a FUE surgery in a clinic in Turkey. Total 1150 FUE grafts. 600 of them placed in crown & 550 placed in hairline. Hairwar feels that his FUE surgery in Turkey led to shock loss in the transplanted hairline and a %age of the transplanted FUE grafts in the hairline did not grow.That amounts to a total of 5 strip surgeries and 1 FUE surgery before coming to us.
If hair war had not got any hair transplants, today he would be a NW5.
Hair war has average scalp laxity in the donor area.

4683 FUSE grafts - 9 mth update (TH)

TH revisited our clinic at 9 months since his first HT, for second part of his hair restoration surgery.

4683 FUSE grafts

Patient particulars
TH is a NW 6 patient of Maori descent.
He has had no other hair restortion surgeries ever.

His 5 month update can be read at
http://hairtransplantcentre.blogspot.com/2007/10/dear-forum-readers-patient-th-sent-his.html

Graft details of 1st HT -
4683 FUSE grafts (of which only 2099 are from the scalp) - 44%.

719 chest, 1533 leg, 206 armpit and 126 abdomen grafts make the rest - 56%.

We shall present the detailed pre operative, intra operative and 9 month post operative pictorial history.
Thereafter, we shall discuss the 2nd time FUSE (scalp + BHT) performed recently.

But first, a quick before and after picture comparison.
Before
After 9 months (we expect further improvement in the first HT's density in the next 3 months).

Pre op Pictures and surgical plan

TH being a Norwood 6 had an extensive area to cover.
In the first stage, the options were to go for a low hairline (almost Norwood 1) or to remain conservatively high.
As the pictures below show

Some closer pictures showing the extent of hairloss.

More pre op pictures

9 months after pictures of recipient area:

9 months after (buzzed donor area pictures)

TH keeps his scalp donor area buzz cut. Something that is possible following the FUSE extractions.
In TH's first HT, 2099 grafts were extracted.

The following pictures show the scalp donor area after 9 months.

2nd HT (Jan 2008) - the plan

In the second stage of his hair restoration, TH wishes to go for a lower hairline and to fill in the crown areas behind the previous transplant.





The plan -

The final hairline will consist of mostly scalp hair mixed with hair from the thigh and the chest.

The crown will be filled using some scalp hair grafts mixed with grafts from the armpit, pubic, chest and beard areas.
The aim being to focus on the more robust hair, rather than on sheer numbers to provide coverage. That is to say, better coverage value per graft.

2nd HT - hairline design

TH has opted for temple closure and a three peaked feathered hairline.
The following pictures explain the hairline design.

Video - donor shaved - for those concerned about donor scarring is shown below.