Greetings,
Here is a new hair transplant video testimonial by actor Grainger Hines.
Grainger describes his experience undergoing the Hair Transplant procedure and how it has changed his life.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Here is a patient who received just over 1600 grafts via FUE into the frontal and mid scalp. The patient is destined for severe baldness, probably a norwood 6/7, and he wanted to create a good frontal tuft of hair in the front so that it frames his face accordingly. He also wanted the option to cut his hair to a #1 buzz cut so that is why we performed FUE so that he would not have a visible linear scar. His results are shown after 6 months, and this only represents about 60% of his final result as there will be more growth and thickening of the hair over the next 6 months that will contribute to increasing cosmetic density. Already his result is impressive and the patient is thrilled. He will return for more grafts in the next year.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This is a patient who had an FUE transplant of 1602 grafts after 6 months.
The donor region shown 6 months after 1602 Grafts harvested with a .9mm punch.
Greetings,
Here is another patient that presented to me after undergoing an eyebrow transplant in Canada by a hair transplant surgeon who has been performing hair transplants for many years but has not performed many eyebrow transplant procedures. Her results showed very sparse density of hairs and unsightly 2 haired follicles present in the eyebrow. The patient was very dissatisfied and presented for a corrective eyebrow transplant. I placed just under 400 single hair follicles per eyebrow and the results are shown immediately post procedure. The patient should have significant density with a completely natural result after 7-9 months.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This shows a botched eyebrow transplant and then immediately post eyebrow transplant repair.
This shows a botched eyebrow transplant and then immediately post eyebrow transplant repair.
Greetings,
Here is a patient of mine who was a norwood 6 with extensive hair loss. He had 3 previous strip harvest procedures with excellent results and was looking to add density to the crown region. Unfortunately the patient was no longer a candidate for another strip harvest procedure so we decided to harvest follicles via FUE from the scalp and the neck portion of the beard. The beard donor site is shown after 8 days and the patient describes the experience in his own words.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Here is a patient who was treated by another hair transplant surgeon who agreed to place 300 FUE grafts into each temporal peak. The temporal peaks are definitely a sign of a youthful hairline, but special care needs to be taken in these areas for many reasons. Firstly, the natural hair in this region is finer than the other scalp hair and it also does not grow long like the other scalp hair. For this reason you must explain to the patient that if you are going to transplant hair into this area, since the typical donor hair comes from the back and sides of the scalp, the new temporal transplanted hair will be coarser and will grow long. Also in a patient with curly hair it can look very unnatural. In addition, the hair lies extremely flat in these regions so it is imperative that the angles for the grafts are made as acute to the skin as possible so the hair does not grow outward. In a very young patient with significant hair loss I think it is a bad idea to address the temporal peaks because without knowing how severe the ultimate hair loss will be you can end up wasting grafts on an area that will ultimately be less important if you have to sacrifice density in more important areas, ie. the frontal and mid scalp.
Getting back to this patient, he was 26 years old with significant hair loss in the frontal scalp when he presented to this hair transplant surgeon who agreed to place 300 FUE grafts into each temporal peak, and not even address the thinning frontal scalp! Here are his results after 2 years which show less than 30 grafts growing on each side. The patient was so disappointed he ended up having scalp micro pigmentation in the area, but I personally do not believe this helps the situation at all. I think the scalp micro pigmentation looks very unnatural and I believe it can also harm adjacent hair follicles and create permanent scarring in the tissue. His photos are below.
Lesson to learn from this. BEWARE of physicians claiming to be FUE experts unless you have seen many before and after photos of their patients who they have specifically performed FUE on. In addition, be very careful before deciding to transplant into the temporal peaks, especially in the younger patient. Unfortunately many hair transplant surgeons in this field will do anything you are willing to pay them to do, but this is not always the right thing. Do you diligent research before having your hair transplant procedure.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This is a failed FUE transplant into temporal peaks with subsequent scalp micro pigmentation.
This is a failed FUE transplant into temporal peaks with subsequent scalp micro pigmentation.
Greetings,
I am so passionate about Hair and Eyebrow Restoration, but I also have other passions in my life. One of which is music. I have been making music for most of my life. I recently had the pleasure of producing and performing on my third album with the talented Minnie Driver called “Ask Me To Dance”. A few weeks ago we performed selections from our new album on “The Today Show” and “Kelly and Michael In The Morning”. I won’t bore you with links to the videos of the performances, (you can search them out online if you are interested), but here are a couple of photos.
I used to want to keep the different facets of my life completely segmented, but now I realize that both my medical career and music career are just different facets of my artistic desire to create.
All the best,
Minnie Driver and Doc Dauer on The Today Show
Minnie Driver and Doc Dauer on Kelly and Michael
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
I recently saw a patient in consultation that had an eyebrow transplant procedure performed in the office of a very well known physician. The issue is that the physician did not perform the procedure. In fact, the physician is not trained in hair transplantation at all and does not even perform hair transplant or eyebrow transplant procedures himself. What he did was have a medical assistant perform the entire procedure, from beginning to end, and the physician did not perform any aspect of it. The medical assistant performed the harvest using the neograft automated FUE machine and then created the recipient sites and placed the grafts. The patient ended up having 2 procedures like this.
The entire procedure was an epic failure. Only about 20 hairs grew from both procedures on each eyebrow and the hairs that grew were growing straight out from the skin in unsightly directions. The donor area in the back of the head was also significantly scarred from the attempted extraction of many hundreds of hair follicles.
In addition, the patient also had an eyebrow tattoo performed in the same physicians office prior to the 2 eyebrow transplants which created even more scarring in the eyebrow.
To have a medical assistant perform the entire hair or eyebrow transplant procedure is not only unethical, it is against the law in many states including California. Unfortunately this represent a growing trend in the field of hair and eyebrow transplantation. More and more companies are pitching “automated” devices to harvest hair follicles and selling physicians who have no experience in the field with a new device to increase their revenue growth. Their pitch is that you don’t need to know anything about hair and eyebrow transplants, just buy the machine and the company will supply per diems technicians to do the rest. This is the result of that.
I performed an eyebrow transplant procedure on the patient and placed approximately 300 follicles per eyebrow. The results are shown a week after the procedure. In a few months I will updated with follow up photos. Because of all the scarring from the previous eyebrow tattoo and botched eyebrow transplants, the patient will have less growth yield than someone with healthy tissue. She should still have an excellent result and I already told her she should expect to have a second procedure in 9-12 months to increase the density.
This should be a lesson to anyone considering hair or eyebrow transplants. Make sure you go to a physician who specializes EXCLUSIVELY in hair transplants or if you are going to have an eyebrow transplant someone who does many of these procedures, and that they have dozens if not hundreds of results to show you. Just because the physician is skilled in another field does not make them an excellent hair or eyebrow transplant surgeon.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This is a botched eyebrow transplant with pre existing eyebrow tattoo present.
This is a botched eyebrow transplant with pre existing eyebrow tattoo showing the hairs growing in different directions incorrectly.
This is a botched eyebrow transplant with pre existing eyebrow tattoo immediately post corrective eyebrow transplant procedure.
This is one week after approximately 300 grafts were placed in each eyebrow to correct a botched eyebrow transplant procedure.
This is one week after approximately 300 grafts were placed in each eyebrow to correct a botched eyebrow transplant procedure.
Greetings,
This is a male patient who cuts his hair very short and wanted more density in the outer half of his eyebrows. I harvested the donor follicles from the scalp using FUE so that the patient would not have a strip scar and the results are shown after 8 months.
Respectfully,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Eyebrow transplant utilizing grafts harvested via FUE.
Eyebrow transplant utilizing grafts harvested via FUE.
Greetings,
This patient received a beard hair transplant harvested via FUE. The results shown after 5 months are already impressive, but the patient should see significantly more growth over the next 6 months.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This patient received just over 600 grafts via FUE (follicular unit extraction) to the beard.
This patient received just over 600 grafts via FUE (follicular unit extraction) to the beard.
Greetings,
Here is a patient who had a previous hair transplant strip procedure with a large chain Hair Transplant operation by a physician who had been performing hair transplants for over 30 years. The patient came to me requesting more density in the frontal scalp, but also complaining of a wide strip scar that was elevated with severe numbness. He also complained because the Physician who had performed his last procedure created a second strip scar deviating at one point from the first. He wanted me to take out the unsightly scar and consolidate the 2 scars into one.
When I started to dissect out the strip I noticed small blue thread and assumed it was a small retained suture that dipped below and was missed in the suture removed. To my amazement what I then discovered was that almost the entire length of the strip scar was closed below the skin with non absorbable nylon sutures. These are sutures that are only to be used on the skin surface and removed. They were placed into the subcutaneous layer below the skin and created a significant amount of scarring and was also giving the patient numbness. I removed the suture, which was caked in scarring at this point, and consolidated the 2 scars into one. The results are shown in the photos.
This should be a warning and reminder to prospective patients that when choosing your hair transplant surgeon make sure to do tremendous research into the person performing your procedure. Experience and focus on the singular discipline of hair restoration are imperative, but just as important is the fact that your surgeon should not have a cavalier attitude towards hair transplants, no matter how long they have been performing the procedure, and must convey and strong sense of sensitivity and respect for the art and science of the procedure, as well as keeping up to date on the latest developments in the field. The field of Hair Transplant surgery is the wild west and there are more unqualified individuals performing bad procedures than good. You only have one chance to do things right, so take the time to chose the proper physician who will give you the greatest chance of successfully achieving your goals.
Respectfully,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Showing the strip scar before revision.
This shows the nylon suture retained in the tissue below the skin and the scarring.
Here is the strip scar immediately after revision and removal of the scarred tissue and retained suture material.