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This is a patient only a few months following surgery of 1622 grafts. He had grafts transplanted to the hairline and sideburns, and while it is unusual to have this much growth at only 4 months, I expect it will get even fuller over the next 4 months. I’m often asked what a hair transplant will look like at various monthly intervals until it is fully grown in, so I wanted to show a unique case.

After only 4 months (1 procedure of 1622 grafts):

Before:

This well known Los Angeles radio host has an advanced Class 6 balding pattern. The bald area is huge (as well as his hat size), and the 2700 medium weight hair grafts were distributed so that it would take advantage of weighting to cover the large balding area. In other words, more hair was placed in the front and on the left side than elsewhere. Utilizing weighting so that a left to right combing style could be used to maximize the value of the 2700 graft he received in his first session, he remained see-through in the central and right areas of his scalp where the amount of hair was not great.

Had we been able to remove 4000-5000 grafts safely, we could have filled up the central area and addressed what was to be thin coverage. As you can see in the pictures, the coverage was good for that number of grafts, but he needs another session to complete the process, bringing up the number of required grafts to the 5000+ range.

If you look at our photo albums, you will see many patients who had 3500-5500 grafts to cover the Class 6 pattern adequately. We are limited to what can be safely transplanted in each session. Still, when you look at the photos below, the change with strict styling and the use of a comb-over produced a remarkable change in his appearance and he is very happy with stage one of what will certainly be a two stage process.

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After (1 procedure of 2700 grafts):

Before:

Bonus - head shot:

This patient has dark hair and white skin, and visited our office to repair his hairline. He had the old pluggy hair transplants that were common in the 1980s and 90s. He’s a Norwood class 6 pattern with slightly wavy, fine hair.

The repair took 2 procedures totaling 3401 grafts. These pictures show the entire story of building a frontal transition zone in front of the old plugs to camouflage and hide the deformities. He is very grateful that he now has a natural looking hairline, recently stopping by to say hello and show me the results of his repair. Click the photos to enlarge.

Before on left / After hairline repair on right:

More photos:

Left- Another angle before repair / Center- 8 months after 1st session / Right- Less than 4 months after 2nd session:

This 41 year old man saw himself in a TV spot and then panicked as he never realized that he had a huge bald spot in his crown. 15 months ago, he had 1870 grafts into his crown and the results are shown in the photo below. He also had a very small scar from the donor strip measuring 1-2 mm wide, a photo of which I’ve also included.

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After (1 procedure of 1870 grafts):

Before:

Here’s a man in his early 30s that was tired of looking older than he actually is, with a Norwood 3A pattern. We restored his hairline in just one procedure of 2000 grafts, and with the hairline came the youthful appearance we’re all after. The after photos were taken at around 11 months after his hair transplant. Click the photos below to enlarge:

After (1 procedure of 2000 grafts):

Before:

This woman lost her eyebrows after multiple skin cancer surgeries. She had one procedure of 95 grafts into the eyebrow area. She told me that she cuts her new brows short every other day, and absolutely loves the results.

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Before on left / After on right:

This patient had 3 strip procedures, which yielded 7846 total grafts. His donor scar in the back of his head was revised with reasonably good results and a reduction in the width of the scar. You will find before and after photos of his hair transplant and the scar revision below.

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Scar revision (Before on left / After on right):

After (3 procedures totaling 7846 grafts):

Before:

This post comes from Dr. William Parsley in Louisville, KY:

Just saw this fellow (around 50 yrs old) today for follow up. I placed him on 1/4 tab of Propecia QD (0.25mg) along with Rogaine Foam BID a year ago. Attached are his results. Don’t know if he would have had a much better result with a higher dose. The appeal of a very low dose got him to give it a try, as he wasn’t excited about using it for worries about side effects. He had no side effects fortunately.

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After (1 year of 0.25mg finasteride and Rogaine Foam):

Before:

This is a college professor who saw a new man in the mirror with this single hair transplant procedure of 2415 grafts. He has fine hair, which often takes more than one session for a completely full look. He told me that no one ever noticed the transition in his appearance, because the change was so slow.

Approximately 2/3rds of the transplants were placed in the first 6 inches of the hairline, which was moved forward, and some grafts were placed in the frontal part of the crown area.

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After (2415 grafts):

Before:

To many people that aren’t familiar with the advances made in hair restoration, “hair plugs” are still the norm. There’s nothing pluggy looking about today’s hair transplant procedures, but those bulky hair plugs of yesteryear were easy to point out and looked incredibly unnatural. I saw a patient that had an unusual placement of these old plugs and was looking to correct it.

This patient first came in about a year and a half ago with a large bald area and old-style transplant plugs that were placed far too low on the right side of his hairline. I suggested that he fill in the frontal area, and he also wanted additional grafts placed into his balding crown. A total of 1919 grafts were transplanted.

You’ll notice that the achieved result shown below is an uneven, but fuller looking hairline (we were limited to what could be done because of the placement of his old plugs). He recently came in to see me again lower the frontal hairline and I agreed to lower the left side a little to balance it out. I remembered how much he hated the plugs on his right side when we first met, and now we succeeded in managing the plugs with styling and camouflage. While that 2nd procedure hasn’t happened yet to even out the hairline, I’m glad he was so happy with the results thus far from the repair and he’s allowed me to share the photos here.

Before photo on left / After photo on right. Click to enlarge.