Greetings,
Here is an interview I did with Spencer Kobren of The Bald Truth about younger patients wanting hair transplants and important issues to be aware of.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, MD
Young Hair Transplant Patients Be Warned! from Spencer Kobren’s The Bald Truth on Vimeo.
Greetings,
Here is a patient who came to me after having undergone several previous procedures and scalp reductions with other hair transplant physicians.
He wanted to add hair to his mid scalp and crown (where there was virtually no hair and a scalp reduction scar) and to attempt to conceal a very wide donor scar from his previous strip hair transplant procedures.
I extracted just over 900 grafts from the neck beard and placed them into the scalp and scar. The results are shown after 9 months and they are already impressive.
The patient should see some increased density over the next 3-6 months as the hairs thicken in diameter.
Although the beard hair is a different consistency than scalp hair it works well in cases like this where there is no more scalp hair to donate and when “filler” hair is needed for increased cosmetic density.
The patient is looking forward to another procedure to add more density in the scalp from the beard hair.
A patient with a relatively thick beard can have up to 2000 grafts to donate from the area below the jaw line.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
beard hair extracted via FUE transplanted to the scalp
beard hair follicles extracted via FUE and transplanted into strip scar
beard hairs extracted via FUE
Greetings,
Here is a female patient of mine who had genetic thinning in her temporal recessions that she wanted to fill in.
These are areas of the scalp that are commonly affected by genetic hair loss.
They can also be affected by various cosmetic procedures, such as face lifts and brow lifts.
The results here are shown after 1 year and the patient is absolutely thrilled.
All the best,
hair transplant to temporal recessions
hair transplant to temporal recessions in a female patient
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Here is a 30 year patient of mine who received 1553 grafts via FUE. The patient is in the military which is why he opted for FUE as he did not want a strip scar to show through his short haircut.
There is a video below of the patient describing his experience undergoing the FUE hair transplant procedure.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
In the most recent issue of the International Society Of Hair Restoration Surgery journal there is an extensive very interesting debate between those who advocate FUT over FUE and those who advocate FUE over FUT.
Many of the salient points discussed I have previously written about here in my blog. I will briefly review a few of the most important points here.
FUE Advantages- less invasive, diffuse dot scarring versus strip scarring with FUT which in most but not all cases allows the patient with FUE to cut the hair down to a #1 or #2 without showing any evidence of scarring, less discomfort post procedure
FUT Advantages- no need to shave the head to harvest the donor hair, ability to harvest more hair in a single day, more donor hair available to harvest throughout the patient’s life (start with FUT and convert to FUE after FUT is no longer possible thus maximizing the donor zone overall), less expensive than FUE
There are many subtleties to the advantages and disadvantages of both of these procedures.
What is most important is that your hair transplant surgeon is proficient in both procedures and offers both procedures to patients.
I prefer to educate my patients as to the benefits and drawbacks of both FUT and FUE and let them choose the procedure that suits them best. I enjoy performing both FUT and FUE and let patient’s know that if everything goes as planned they should have a great result no matter which method they choose.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Here is a patient of mine who received 1532 grafts to the hairline and frontal scalp. I included close up photos of the hairline as well and the patients donor strip scar which is virtually invisible with his short haircut.
The patient is thrilled with his results!
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This is the donor zone after the patient had a strip harvest for hair transpant.
Greetings,
Here is an interview I did recently with Spencer Kobren of “The Bald Truth” where I explained my approach to treating young patients wanting hair transplants.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
This is a very interesting patient of mine. This patient, whom both he and his wife happen to both be physicians, presented to me complaining of hair loss in the frontal scalp, sideburns, and eyebrows over a number of years. The patient denied any other medical conditions.
On examination I determined that the patient most likely had a form of scarring alopecia and referred the patient to a local dermatologist for confirmation. A biopsy confirmed Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia and the pathology revealed that the disease appeared inactive.
After discussion with the patient and the treating Dermatologist we agreed that I would transplant a small number of test grafts in different areas of hair loss and we would see how they grew before proceeding with a larger procedure.
The test grafts grew well and the patient returned requesting a much larger procedure to create cosmetic density in the frontal scalp, sideburns, and eyebrows.
I explained to the patient that even if we were successful with the transplant procedure, there was always the possibility that the disease could recur in the future and possibly destroy the transplanted grafts. The patient understood and wished to proceed with the procedure.
The patient received 2521 grafts via FUT to the frontal scalp, mid scalp, and sideburns, and approximately 250 grafts per eyebrow. Care was taken not to pack the grafts too densely because of possible vascular compromise of the tissue to be transplanted secondary to the scarring alopecia process.
The results are shown after 1 year.
The patient is absolutely thrilled with his results and is now requesting a second procedure to increase the density.
I hope to provide updates in the future.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Patient with Scarring Alopecia who received a hair transplant
Patient with Scarring Alopecia who received a hair transplant
Patient with Scarring Alopecia who received a hair transplant
Patient with Scarring Alopecia who received a hair transplant
Patient with Scarring Alopecia who received a hair transplant
Patient with Scarring Alopecia who received a hair transplant
Patient with Scarring Alopecia who received an eyebrow transplant
Greetings,
Here is a patient who presented to me after undergoing 2 previous procedures with another physician. He was having constant pain in the donor region. On examination his strip scar was raised and 7-9mm wide and in certain spots there were 2 separate scars.
I decided to revise the scar in the context of the patients procedure to increase the density in his hairline.
While I was extracting the old scar I noticed that there were a number of retained nylon sutures in the wound that were left there and had never been removed. These were likely contributing to the pain and poor healing. I removed the retained sutures and revised the scar closing with a triuchopytic closure to get hair to grow through the scar.
I then placed 1003 grafts into the hairline.
The results of the hair transplant and the donor scar revision are shown below.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
hair transplant strip scar revision
Greetings,
Here is a patient of mine who I perfumed a hair transplant of 2258 grafts via FUT. The patient has very fine, straight hair, which is the least ideal hair type when trying to maximize cosmetic density, but despite this the results are still significant and the patient is pleased.
The patient also had a previous procedure with another physician and discusses the difference between my procedure and his previous one.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.