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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 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 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 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.

 

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,

Here is a patient of mine 7 months after I completed his hair transplant of approximately 2500 grafts. The harvest was performed via FUT. The patient’s growth is extremely robust for the 7 month mark and he should still see more increased cosmetic density over the next 6-7 months. He is thrilled with the results as they stand and looking forward to more hair growing in.

I hope you enjoy watching.

All the best,

Marc Dauer, M.D.

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 new hair transplant testimonial of one of my patients. The results from a single procedure 1 year later are shown as well.

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,

Today I will discuss a patient of mine who presented with a form of scarring alopecia called Lichen Planopilaris. This resulted in the loss of all the hair follicles in the frontal and mid scalp as well as the eyebrows and sideburns. The patient initially thought that the hair loss was androgenic alopecia, but after my examination and subsequent scalp biopsy the diagnosis was confirmed. It is imperative that the hair transplant surgeon has a thorough knowledge of all the forms of alopecia as different causes result in different outcomes and some are candidates for hair transplants and others not.

In this case the biopsy also showed that the scarring alopecia had “burnt out” and was no longer active. We decided to do 3 small areas with test grafts to see if they would grow before considering a more expansive procedure. What we found was excellent growth in all the test areas after only 12 weeks. After discussing with the patient and letting him know that there still is a chance that we won’t see the same growth rate that is seen in healthy scalp, and the patient decided to proceed with a more extensive procedure.

Below you can see the photo before the test grafts and the test grafts that have grown. I will continue to provide updates on this very interesting case.

All the best,

Marc Dauer, M.D.

This is a patient with scarring alopecia who had test grafts placed into 3 different areas.

This is a patient with scarring alopecia who had test grafts placed into 3 different areas.

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

Beard Transplant via FUE

Beard Transplant via FUE