March 13 2008, 3:35 pm PT | Posted in: Hair Transplantation + Photos + Training
This young man had a hair transplant by a doctor who had done very few transplants on his own. He might have actually been this doctor’s first hair transplant patient. The procedure, which occurred around 5 years ago, failed after the doctor attempted transplanting around 1200 grafts. The patient was lucky (in a way) that the balding area was well covered by his existing comb-forward hair stying. His photos are below (click to enlarge) –
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Seeing hair transplant failure cases are very disheartening and is what drives me daily to help patients find hair transplant surgeons that consistently perform state of the art hair transplantation.
Ironically, “experience” doesn’t necessarily mean that a physician is using state of the art techniques. Unfortunately, many continue to use “minigrafting” and multi-blade knives to remove the donor area causing transection and inevitably reducing the amount of “usable” donor hair.
Thanks for posting this as this should give seeking patients more motiviation for doing proper research in selecting a hair transplant surgeon.
Best wishes,
Bill - Falceros
Associate Publisher of http://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com, http://www.hairlosslearningcenter.org, and http://www.regrowhair.com
[...] For an example of a hair transplant failure case, see Dr. Rassman’s Balding Blog Article on this issue by clicking here. [...]