Greetings,
Today I want to share a new patient testimonial of a patient of mine who had FUE, follicular unit extraction of just over 1550 grafts into the frontal scalp. The patient discusses his experience with the procedure and the donor area is shown after 2 weeks with almost no sign of any procedure.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, MD
Greetings,
Here is a patient of mine who underwent an FUE hair transplant. He explains the entire process from his prospective.
It is an enjoyable and educational video.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Here is a video of a patient of mine who received FUE grafts to the frontal scalp, the crown, and into a previous strip scar (created by another physician) to help conceal the strip scar. The results are shown after 7 months and already look dramatic. The patient will have additional cosmetic coverage over the next 7 months as additional transplanted hair grow in a nd continue to thicken in diameter. I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
The patient in this video had a wide donor strip scar performed by another physician. The physician tried to resect the scar multiple times with no improvement. The patient also had scalp micro pigmentation which only provided slight improvement. I harvested approximately 500 beard grafts via FUE and placed them into the scar. The result show 2 weeks after the procedure shows significantly visible improvement and it will get even better when the hairs grow longer. In addition there is no visible scarring in the heard area from where the grafts were taken.
I hope you enjoy watching and I will provide a follow up video in 6 months.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Today I want to highlight a new article I just saw on CNN discussing how various organs were engineered in the lab to create new organs for individuals that were missing these specific organs.
This is a huge step forward for organ cloning as the closer we get to being able to clone tissue, the closer we get to being able to clone hair. Once we can clone hair we will no longer need to harvest donor hair from the scalp and every person will have unlimited supply for whatever demand they have for scalp hair. I am not trying to say that we are a few years away from being able to clone hair in practical terms, but I know think that we may see hair cloning in the real world in 10-20 years.
I can’t wait for that day!
I have attached a link to the article below.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/health/tissue-engineering-success/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Greetings,
With all the recent press surrounding beard transplants I wanted to highlight a patient of mine. This patient had 2 bald patches in his beard in the same spot on both sides. This is genetic and a very common phenomenon. In this case I harvested the donor hair from his neck beard via FUE and transplanted the grafts into the bald patches. The result is shown 10 months later. The patient was very happy with his results.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Beard Transplant via FUE
Beard Transplant via FUE
Greetings,
Here is a new hair transplant patient testimonial of one of my recent patients. This particular patient is a well known actor and he describes his experience undergoing the procedure both the day of and the subsequent healing period. I also describe my surgical approach to this particular patient.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Here is a new patient testimonial and informational video I put together.
I hope you enjoy.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Hair transplants and hair restoration procedures are known to be more common with men. The inquiries for the Hair Transplant procedure have grown due to the fact that more women are starting to experience hair loss. Women are losing hair due to several different reasons, such as high stress levels, iron deficiency, and genetics. This article states that it is a condition that affects six million women in Britain. I am very curious to see what the number is in the USA. Today’s procedure is very different than the hair transplant procedures of yesteryear. Today an amazing natural hair transplant comes through the hands of a few very talented and creative doctors. It is artistry combined with technology that lead to a completely natural result. A link to the article is below.
Greetings,
Today I want to discuss the tool I use in performing Follicular Unit Extraction otherwise known as FUE. Every person’s scalp is different and therefore it is important that we do not approach what we do as Hair Transplant surgeons as a one size fits all approach. Along those lines, I recently started using a sharp tip punch with serrated edges as an option for my FUE cases. Prior this the only punch I had found that produced good results was a blunt tip punch. I will still continue to use the blunt tip as an option in some cases that do not respond well to a sharp tip punch, but I can truly say that these special sharp tip punches with serrated edges allowed me to harvest FUE grafts that are completely on par with strip harvested and dissected grafts, which continue to be the gold standard by which all hair transplant grafts are measured by. In the photo below you can see the perfectly intact FUE grafts and the large hair grouping that are present in these grafts harvested with a 1mm sharp serrated punch. In one side you can see the single hair grafts that were dissected out of the larger grafts in order to restore the patient’s hairline. In the other corner you can see the total of transected grafts which amounted to under 50 grafts. Based on this case of 1656 grafts harvested total the transection rate was approximately 3% which is incredibly low for any sort of FUE case, manual or automated. If you look closely at the grafts you can also see the amazing consistency of the grafts which you do not see with FUE grafts obtained with automated machines. I have showed this photo to a number of highly respected hair transplant surgeons and they have stated that these FUE grafts look just like dissected strip grafts which is the biggest compliment one can give to an FUE graft.
In summary, every individuals scalp and anatomy are different and it is imperative that we as Hair Transplant surgeons have many useful tools at our disposal in order to give each and every patient the best result possible.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, MD
These are FUE grafts harvested with a serrated sharp tip. The natural intact groupings are seen in the bottom right and top left corners, the single hair grafts in the top right corner, and the transected grafts in the bottom left corner.