Dr. William Lindsey provides ultra refined hair transplantation with excellent results.
Why Dr. Lindsey is recommended.
Dr. William Lindsey of Lindsey Medical has over 10 years of hair transplant experience and performs ultra refined follicular unit hair transplantation as the primary part of his practice at his clinic in McLean, VA.
He and his staff have the skill and capability to perform very large sessions of over 2500 follicular unit grafts when appropriate for the patient. They also perform only one surgery per day in order to focus on the patient of the day.
Dr. Lindsey’s highly trained staff, averaging four years of experience, trim all follicular unit grafts under microscopes and then place them delicately into tiny recipient sites under the direct supervision of Dr. Lindsey. He closes the donor area using the trichophytic closure technique, which helps produce a scar that is pencil thin and easily hidden beneath the hair.
His flexible approach of adapting his use of both parallel (sagital) and perpendicular (coronal/lateral) recipient incisions allows him to mimic natural hair direction while minimizing scalp trauma. Dr. Lindsey has worked in close association with Dr. Alan Feller over the past several years and learned the advanced ultra refined techniques for which Dr. Feller is renowned. In addition, Dr. Lindsey's staff of technicians received intensive training with Dr. Feller and his staff.
Dr. Lindsey’s specialties include dense packing when appropriate for the patient, hair transplant repair, and scar repair.
Dr. Lindsey has a strong background in facial plastic surgery. However, in recent years he has focused his skills and resources on providing state of the art hair transplantation to his patients.
Dr. Lindsey received his board certification from the American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in 1996 and from the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 1999. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Fellow of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He is also a member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons (ISHRS).
Dr. Lindsey, his surgical technique, and patient results were carefully reviewed by our patient based online hair loss community. To view the highlights of this review, click here.
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Articles Published on our Hair Loss Q&A website.
Follicular Unit Hair Transplant after Strip Surgery: Can I Wear a Short Hairstyle? - 5/15/2013
Follicular unit hair transplantation via strip is much more consistent at providing good results and unless you are planning on really short hair, our office would strongly suggest strip.
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My Hair is Thicker on Top Than in the Hair Transplant Donor Zone: Is This Normal? - 5/15/2013
I’d guess that in 40% of the follicular unit transplant (FUT) strip cases we do that the hair is noticeably thinner on one or both of the sides than in the middle or up higher on the head.
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Moisturizing Dry Scalp Due to Hair Loss Drug Propecia (Finasteride) - 5/8/2013
I think a trial of Neutrogena T/Gel shampoo, available at most grocery stores in our area for about $9.00, is worthwhile. I find that it solves most dry problems. If it doesn’t help in a few weeks I’d see a dermatologist.
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Accutane Affects Hair Loss and Hair Transplant Results? - 4/3/2013
Accutane can dramatically increase scarring. We would not offer surgery to anyone until being off of Accutane for at least 6 months.
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Dedicated Hair Restoration Clinics vs. General Plastic Surgeons: Where to Get the Best Hair Transplant - 3/16/2013
1. Some of what you’ve said isn’t far off. There are people in the ISHRS who do work that would be ridiculed off of this and other forums where the consumers are educated just as there are people in the plastic surgery societies who do poor nose jobs and facelifts.
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Hair Transplants: Fixing Misaligned Follicular Unit Grafts? - 3/12/2013
My general thoughts are, unless the hairs are really misaligned so that you can’t cover them with hairspray, mousse, etc., that we simply pack hair around the previously placed hairs in a second hair restoration surgery.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Causes Hair Loss? - 2/1/2013
I strongly doubt if Vitamin D is a problem for you and I’m not a huge fan of the vitamin scam. But, it won’t hurt to take an inexpensive daily vitamin containing vitamin D.
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Hair Transplants: What is the Recommended Interval between Strip Surgeries? - 12/30/2012
I encourage people to wait 1 year between follicular unit hair transplants (FUT). Part of this is for healing to be complete but any quick review of most textbooks discussing wound healing will show a chart that says something to the effect that, by 6 months, most wounds are back to about 85% of their pre-injury strength.
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Hair Transplant Donor Scar Widening Two Months after Surgery: What Can I do? - 11/28/2012
Check in with your hair restoration physician. It might be a deep stitch popped. It might be hypertrophy needing a shot of steroid, and it might just be a little more shock loss on one side than the other.
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Is Graft Survival Lower with Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) Hair Transplants? - 11/15/2012
Good question! It depends on how you count “lost”. When doing a FUE, you are placing a cylindrical punch around a cluster of hairs, incising the epidermis and dermis, and then lifting out the cluster gently, so that the fatty attachments to the bottom of the root bulb avulse without;
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The Influence of Donor Hair Quality on Hair Transplant Results - 11/8/2012
First, you can indeed get a good idea of donor quality looking at the physical findings of how thick and coarse the donor hair is. The thicker and curlier the better. As I’ve posted a number of times, a wiry-haired Middle Eastern or Indian patient is really the ideal candidate and a thin straight-haired northern Chinese patient is possibly the worst.
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Hair Transplant Surgery Consent Forms: Signing prior to Surgery Day? - 9/26/2012
I prefer to do the consent before the day of the surgery if possible. Hence, all overseas patients arrive a day before for planning and signing consents.
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Coalition Hair Transplant Surgeon Dr. Lindsey Discusses Scalp Micropigmentation (SMP) - 9/18/2012
Because of its new and unique nature, scalp micropigmentation (SMP) has become a popular topic on our hair loss discussion forums.
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Photographing Hair Transplant Results: Are Some Hair Restoration Clinics Purposely Misleading? - 9/12/2012
First, the photographer should try to be consistent. Although I’m the first to admit that I’m not a great photographer, I am consistent.
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Hair Transplant Surgery: What Separates Top Hair Restoration Surgeons from the Rest? - 9/6/2012
I suspect it’s a combination of a number of factors: Honest consultations and hair loss treatment plans–not fishing for every available dollar from every available consultation...
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Did Hair Transplant Surgery Change the Position of My Ears? - 8/24/2012
First, being a facial plastic surgeon who has “tucked” about 74 sets of ears, I can tell you that anatomically it’s difficult to change the amount ears protrude from the head, even when that is the goal. It takes cartilage shaping suturing or cutting.
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Is Hair Transplant Surgery Effective for Treating Crown Hair Loss? - 8/4/2012
I think crowns are a black hole that can suck up all available hair and still only give you improvement: rarely perfection.
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Do Multiple Follicular Unit Hair Transplants Require Multiple Strip Scars? - 8/2/2012
If the scar is in the “usual and correct location”, meaning not crisscrossing the entire back of the head (which I do see from time to time) then it’s all a mathematical equation of how much hair you need/want,
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Is Hair Transplantation Difficult in African American Hair Loss Sufferers? - 6/28/2012
One of the most important aspects of a successful hair transplant procedure is understanding that each patient’s physiology is different and unique.
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Follicular Unit Extraction Hair Transplantation (FUE): Factors That May Affect Hair Growth - 5/23/2012
First, there is the extraction process; making the punch along the correct angle and not hitting the root bulb or slicing off part of the root bulb itself.
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Minimizing a Hair Transplant Strip Scar with Follicular Unit Extraction - 5/16/2012
It all depends on your physiology, your scar and your hair thickness. If you have nice thick donor hair to put into a scar that is not too bad then yes, you can “cure” the problem. However, that is often not the case.
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Hair Transplant Surgery Final Results: Does It Really Take a Full Year for Hair Growth? - 5/3/2012
Here is the timeline I tell people: Today you will leave with a crew cut of new hair wherever we place it. Seven days from now you’ll get your sutures out and, most likely, you won’t have cleaned enough.
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Hair Transplant Donor Strips: What is the Optimal Width? - 4/11/2012
With rare exception my FUT strips are always about 1.75 cm wide or about the width of a stick of gum. The variable is the length which can be ear to ear or shorter if we need less hair. For me, that usually results in a pretty decent scar.
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Choosing a Quality Hair Transplant Surgeon by Dr. William Lindsey - 2/23/2012
A patient who had seen me a few years ago, and who’d had a bad experience in the past with a hair transplant elsewhere, recently re-contacted me to let me know he was now thinking of moving forward with revision surgery.
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Are Sutures Better than Staples for Closing a Hair Transplant Donor Incision? - 12/22/2011
I will use either sutures or staples to close a hair transplant donor incision. Both are the “same” if put in correctly. I just happen to be better at sewing than stapling. Plus, as I’ve already sutured a deep layer, I’m all warmed up for sewing.
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Can I Use a Sauna or Steam Room Six Weeks after Hair Transplant Surgery? - 11/4/2011
We had an interesting case a couple of years ago. He was a repair case from a major chain operation and he’d had chronic scar problems. About a year after our repair case, we revised his first hair transplant scar and he started having the same problems.
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Are Hair Transplants Appropriate For a 23 Year Old Male? - 10/27/2011
I have no problem with your age if you are an informed patient and you plan to avoid the 3 mistakes of hair transplant surgery.
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Today’s Advancements in Hair Transplant Scar Revision by Coalition Member Dr. William Lindsey - 9/25/2011
I feel for you in your plight. Unfortunately there are no guarantees with any type of surgery, and in particular, the best predictor of poor scarring is … previous poor scarring.
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Dr. Lindsey Discusses Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and Hair Transplant Surgery - 9/17/2011
Although this condition affects a variety of individuals, it’s often seen in patients seeking permanent reversal of perceived imperfections via cosmetic surgery.
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Dr. Lindsey Discusses Using “Single” Follicular Unit Grafts in Hairlines During Hair Transplant Surgery - 9/9/2011
We try to pack the hairline with single grafts, back about 1/4 to 3/8 of an inch and then we move to double follicular unit grafts (comprised of two haired units). Only much further into the midscalp do we use three hair grafts.
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How Effective is FUE for Hair Transplant Scar Revision? - 8/23/2011
As I’ve posted a bunch of times before, I’m very comfortable excising scars and trying to improve them that way FIRST, and using follicular unit extraction (FUE) or even a separate FUT (strip) to get hair to plant as a refinement of a scar revision.
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Is a Manual or an Automatic Punch Best for Follicular Unit Extraction Hair Transplantation? - 8/18/2011
Dr. Alan Feller, with whom I’m associated, taught me to do FUE’s several years ago. He taught me with his Feller Punches and his fancy machine…actually several prototypes and the real final product.
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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Manufacturer of the Hair Loss Drug Propecia - 7/15/2011
For some time now, patients, physicians, and hair restoration experts have discussed finasteride (Propecia) and whether or not permanent sexual side effects are possible.
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What is the Best Type of Extraction Tool for a Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) Procedure? - 6/29/2011
Personally, I use manual hand punches 90% of the time, as I’m not as consistent with the motorized punches except in really straight haired patients. For really curly roots I use a different style hand punch.
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Why I Don’t Offer ECM/ACell Proteins with Hair Transplants at this Time – Dr. William Lindsey - 5/5/2011
I have written this in response to a few folks asking why I’m not on the extracellular matrix (ECM)/ACell bandwagon. I’m all in favor of improving our hair restoration results, but need to see the science actually done, rather than anecdotal reports.
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Why Do Some Doctors Shave the Head for Hair Transplant Surgery? - 4/22/2011
I freely admit that I lose some patients to local competitors due to my shaving the recipient area. Four reasons we shave are: 1. Visibility and placement without getting tangled in nearby hair.
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How Trichophytic Closure Benefits Hair Transplant Donor Scars - 3/3/2011
I have posted a few threads before on how trichophytic closures were developed by plastic surgeons for brow lift scars.
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What Causes Hair Loss? - 2/24/2011
With rare exception, male pattern baldness is a combination of bad genes and bad luck. Hair loss is generally not caused by water, vitamin deficiency, diet, radio waves hitting the scalp, or cell phone use:
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Is It Normal for a Hair Transplant to Grow Faster on One Side of a Hairline? - 2/21/2011
In my hair restoration clinic I’d guess that, of the 40% of patients that show up for a 6 month scar check, there is a significant difference in growth between the left and right sides in maybe 1 in 4 people.
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Repairing an Old “Pluggy” Hair Transplant - 2/11/2011
Depending on how big your plugs are, taking them out via FUE, excising them, or even including them in your new hairline are all options to be discussed. I often favor the latter and just pack hair around the plugs. While not “virgin scalp”, this hair transplant technique has been very reliable for me.
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What is the Average Width and Length of a Hair Transplant Donor Strip? - 1/21/2011
When performing follicular unit transplantation (FUT), our donor strips are almost always 1.6-1.7cm wide or about the width of a stick of gum. The length of the strips varies with density and the number of follicular unit grafts needed to meet the patient’s hair restoration goals.
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Is It Normal for Hair Transplant Techs to Place the Follicular Unit Grafts? - 1/15/2011
Back in the days of minigraft hair transplantation, I probably placed about 75% of the grafts. When we switched to follicular unit grafting and increased the size of the cases, techs became more involved.
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Is Follicular Unit Extraction an Option for African-American Patients? - 1/13/2011
In my opinion, it’s harder to perform follicular unit extraction on curly African hair than with straight-rooted (non-black) hair. However, I’ve now done 6 FUE cases on black patients and each hair transplant has been easier than the previous one.
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Treating Hair Transplant Scar Stretching Before it Begins - 1/6/2011
Due to issues associated with the traditional follicular unit transplantation/FUT “strip scar,” many hair restoration patients seek advice on how to prevent hair transplant scars from stretching and treating the issue if stretching does occur.
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Can the Hairline Lowering Procedure Be Performed on Males? - 12/21/2010
Yes, a forehead reduction procedure is cheaper and, if done correctly, gives a great result quickly. However, this procedure does come with the the added risk of potentially permanent numbness behind the incision.
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Is Scarring an Issue When Revising an Older Hair Transplant? - 12/14/2010
No, not at all. We do a fair number of plug repairs in my hair restoration clinic and surrounding scar tissue is almost never an issue that requires making larger slits or causes concern that there is insufficient blood supply for hair growth.
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Trichophytic Closure for Hair Transplant Surgery - 12/4/2010
Trichophytic incisions and closures were originally developed for forehead lifting, then adopted by many hair restoration surgeons. With forehead lifting, the standard coronal lift involves a cut about an inch and a half back in the hair. The forehead is lifted and a strip of hair-baring scalp is excised.
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What Does Hair Transplant Donor Scar Stretching Look Like? - 12/1/2010
Hair transplant donor scar stretching looks like the scar in the photo below. This is often due to a combination of high skin tension after closure and genetic potential for producing poor scars.
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Can I Start with Follicular Unit Extraction and then Have a Strip Hair Transplant Later? - 11/25/2010
I have written several times that I think that follicular unit extraction (FUE) is potentially over-recommended. For me, it’s perfect for someone who is not likely to go “real
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How Long after Hair Transplant Surgery is the Donor Scar fully Healed? - 11/23/2010
One year is the usual, final end result for scars in my 16 years of practice. However, most scar problems will be evident at around 6-12 weeks and, on rare occasions, a scar can act up years later. This often occurs as the result of some incidental trauma in that area.
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What Factors Affect Transection Rates during Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation? - 11/18/2010
Follicular unit extraction (FUE) involves “cutting blindly” as compared to follicular unit transplantation (FUT) where the strip is dissected under high-powered stereo-microscopes.
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When is Follicular Unit Extraction the Best Hair Transplant Option? - 10/28/2010
Follicular unit extraction (FUE) is perfect for folks who want a crew cut in their donor region, have a strong risk of poor scarring or a family history of poor scarring and need limited amounts of hair now and in the future.
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Obtaining and Implanting Additional Grafts During a Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) Scar Revision Procedure? - 10/16/2010
In many cases, I completely understand the appeal of removing and implanting additional grafts during a scar revision procedure. The patient is already at the hair transplant clinic and a strip, whether still containing some viable follicular unit grafts or simply scar tissue, is being removed regardless, so why not add additional density?
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Is it Possible to Calculate the Precise Number of Follicular Unit Grafts Needed to Fill an Area of Balding Scalp? - 10/14/2010
lthough many hair restoration patients desire an exact calculation of the number of follicular unit grafts necessary to fill their balding scalp, many hair transplant experts claim this simply isn’t feasible.
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Why Do Hair Transplant Graft Estimates Sometimes Vary? - 9/28/2010
Well, it varies from patient need to patient need, and from physician to physician. For example, a young African-American man came to my office today for a consultation. He’d been to 3 other hair transplant surgeons and had a list of questions.
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Are Vitamins and Supplements Effective for Treating Hair Loss? - 9/23/2010
There are lots of anecdotal reports of supplements, shampoos and lasers out there that claim to do wonders for hair loss and most anything else.
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What if I Disagree with My Hair Transplant Physician? - 9/21/2010
You should absolutely bring up a discrepancy in planning to your hair restoration doctor pre-op! To not discuss this may result in you being less satisfied, feeling swindled (even if no swindling occurred) and possibly with the wrong treatment plan to deal with your hair loss.
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Taking Vitamin K before a Hair Transplant - 9/18/2010
Given the small slit sizes we use now during follicular unit transplantation(FUT), I find Vitamin K of no use and it may increase the risk of deep venous thrombosis (leg blood clots) in patients who are sitting still for hours on end.
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Sebaceous Cysts after a Hair Transplant - 9/16/2010
Cysts can occur spontaneously in lots of people not only those treating hair loss surgically. I take 2 or 3 a week off of patients that a nearby dermatologist sends over. Some families are just very prone to cysts.
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Shaving the Recipient Area for a Follicular Unit Extraction Hair Transplant - 9/10/2010
We shave ALL big hair transplant cases but for a small follicular unit extraction(FUE) it would depend. It’s important to leave some hair to help figure out angles, etc. In smaller FUE cases like it sounds as if you want, we would most likely cut the hair in that area to about 3/8 of an inch.
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Can Grafts From a Hair Transplant Scar Repair be Saved? - 8/24/2010
It really depends on how big and thick the hair transplant scar is. If the scar is like beef jerky, then its pretty tough to get any hair out without transecting it or having essentially an antiquated 1 haired minigraft.
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What is the Average Width of a Hair Transplant Donor Strip? - 8/17/2010
In our clinic, our hair transplant donor strips are generally about the same width as a stick of gum or about 1.8cm. We vary the length with the amount of follicular unit grafts required.
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When is a Hair Transplant Scar in Most Danger of Stretching? - 8/7/2010
Donor scar width is generally proportional to skin edge tension. Therefore, whatever can be done to reduce this helps keep the scars from stretching. At our office, we favor long, skinny strips so that there isn’t a lot of scalp to pull together.
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What Factors Affect the Duration of a Hair Transplant Procedure? - 7/21/2010
In general, we can transplant 3500 grafts starting promptly at 8am and finishing by 5pm. Occasionally, a cutter is sick or out for some reason and things may take an extra 45 minutes or so but, with sufficient manpower, even larger cases shouldn’t take forever.
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What is the Best Technique for Closing the Hair Transplant Donor Site? - 6/18/2010
For me, a two-layer trichophytic closure is important in getting the best hair transplant surgery scars we can. My scars are often, although not always, pretty nice after maturing.
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Using FUE to Conceal the Scar from a Strip Hair Transplant Procedure - 6/16/2010
It all depends on the FUT scar. An excellent strip scar may be undetectable, but they are rare. A very good strip scar can be camouflaged with just a small buzz of overlying hair and, if needed, a follicular unit extraction procedure may help but probably not.
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Why Are Hair Transplant Doctors No Longer Performing Scalp Reductions? - 6/10/2010
First, scars can be a real problem and can potentially disfigure someone, even in the best of hands. Additionally, tissue expansion really let us remove a lot of bald scalp, but very few men want to walk around with a balloon expander in for a month, when they can have a modern transplant.
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Proscar vs. Propecia for Treating Hair Loss - 6/9/2010
Proscar and Propecia are the same drug (finasteride) except for the dose, 5mg and 1mg respectively. 1mg of finasteride will treat hair loss like the 5mg Proscar pill will, with potentially less of those pesky side effects.
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The Importance of Selecting Well-Trained Hair Transplant Technicians - 3/2/2010
The issue of hair transplant technicians placing grafts is certainly an important one. Last year I posted pictures on this network of how we train our techs: first on pickles, then on fruit. Ask your hair transplant surgeon how experienced the graft placers are when you are there for a consultation. Better yet, as we try to do, have your potential doctor show you a case in progress and spend a few minutes watching how the techs place...
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Why Does Hair Loss Start at Different Times for Different People? - 2/18/2010
In men, except in unusual circumstances, hair loss is all genes and luck, or lack thereof. I recall from some source or another, that male hair loss affects 10% of the population per decade. Thus, 40% of guys in their 40’s have significant hair loss. My “eyeballing” of people walking around the mall or at a recent football game suggests that is probably reasonably accurate. So then the issue is what do you do about it. My consultations always offer 4 choices...
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Eliminating Shiny Scalp due to Baldness - 12/29/2009
First off, some people are oilier than others and are therefore have shinier scalps. I am one of them. It looks bad in pictures, and worse when I am the only shiny guy at an event. But that is life and I think (based on dealing with a lot of aging faces) that oily skin ages a bit better than dry skin...
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Donor “Shock Loss” After Hair Transplant Surgery – Is it Common? - 9/14/2009
Shock loss in the donor area definitely can occur after surgical hair restoration. We don’t see it too often mainly because of hair covering the scar. But I have a marine we worked with about 2 months ago who, like all marines, didn’t take his valium as he is tough. This guy was a character! When I started giving him a hard time about 90% of my military patients not taking valium and then I gave him the first shot, he said “thank you sir may I have another!”. Indeed he was tough...
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Eliminating Hair Transplant Scars? - 8/28/2009
Be cautious of folks who have “invented” some new technique that will revolutionize hair transplant scars. There are literally thousands of general and facial plastic surgeons who daily want to avoid significant scarring at almost any cost. Do you really think if someone invented something a year and a half ago that solved all scar problems that it wouldn’t make headlines and we’d all be doing it?
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Can Doctors Predict Future Hair Loss? - 5/4/2009
I have had a number of balding patients who recently have either seen other local hair restoration doctors for consultations, or who have had a hair transplant procedure in the past and now have lost more hair. A common theme has been that they were told by other consultants that they weren’t going to experience more hair loss.
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Combining Hair Transplant Surgery with a Hair System - 1/13/2009
This type of approach is reasonable for select hair loss patients. First, I have worked with several guys who were able to have a hair restoration procedure, slightly modify the way they wore or styled their hair system, and “pull off” the surgery without their friends/customers knowing. Then in a few months they can modify the system again to show the hair transplant result, and consider moving forward with a second procedure much later.
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Is Female Eyebrow Hair Transplant Surgery Worth It? - 12/9/2008
I am a facial plastic surgeon, fellowship trained, previously on faculty at 2 teaching universities, and I have done many eyelid, eyebrow, forehead, and face procedures along with hair which has become my focus. And do you know how many eyebrow transplant cases that I have seen? One. And that was a result of trauma. Now if you have an area disfigured by trauma, then a face doctor like me would be important to get the area prepared for the best outcome from a transplant, and since I can do follicular unit extraction (FUE), I probably can do the entire procedure well. But, for your average female that over-plucked for decades, you need an excellent FUE doctor, who will be honest enough to explain to her that scalp hair and eyebrow hair are very different...
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Hair Transplant without Hair Loss Medication? - 11/11/2008
22 is pretty young. I would consider hair loss drugs and make sure you gave them time to work before you give up (1 year or more). 23 is still young for a hair transplant but at least you will have tried the alternative to surgery and maybe it will buy you a lot more time than just a year. Plus you can establish some relationship with a doctor and see if you and he are on the same wavelength. I had a 20 year old come in this my clinic this morning and I spent about 40 minutes mainly educating him on all of the stuff bloggers on this site already know. I told him to...
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Hair Transplant: Staples Verses Sutures to Close the Donor Area - 9/30/2008
I see this question a lot on the hair loss forum and have put my 2 cents in a few times. To summarize, I don’t think there is any difference between sutures and staples if placed with the same amount of skill.
I place staples about 25% of the time and it really depends on how the skin comes together for me. The hair restoration patient who is shown in this hair transplant photo album was listening to my assistant and me discussing this very topic. In the last 8 years...
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Guaranteed “No Scar” Hair Transplant Procedure? - 9/20/2008
I wish you could get someone to teach me how to guarantee no scars in hair replacement surgery! I was recently deposed on another doctor’s malpractice case, and several experts and me stated that every transection of the skin leaves a scar. Now, hair loss doctors can attempt to make it a very fine scar or minimally noticeable, but there will be a scar.
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Pain Management During Hair Transplant Surgery - 8/25/2008
We did a hair transplant last week on a man who initially complained of terrible pain. I was surprised as his reaction to even the initial numbing of the donor area, then he added that he needs to get put to sleep for dental cleaning. We often give our patients a valium before the procedure and even a pain pill as needed, and this almost always eliminates discomfort. But this guy had to drive 4 hours after the hair restoration procedure and that wasn’t an option.
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Why Smoking Should be Avoided Before and After Hair Replacement Surgery - 8/5/2008
I have posted several threads on this hair loss forum on the effect of smoking on wound healing and agree with the sentiment of those of you who feel that if you are spending a bunch of money on hair replacement surgery and smoking might compromise your result, don’t smoke for 10 days before and after your procedure. Several studies, and malpractice insurance carriers, have documented the preoperative effect of smoking on wound repair.
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Hair Loss? The Importance of Protecting Your Balding Scalp from the Sun - 6/11/2008
This week I was reviewing my hair transplant procedure records and came across an interesting finding. We have had 9 hair loss patients who presented for consultation who on examination, were found to have skin cancer on their scalp who were treated and subsequently had hair replacement surgery at our office. I would guess that I have had twice that number who were referred out for the skin cancer treatment and didn’t proceed with hair surgery.
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Suture Removal After Hair Transplant Surgery - 5/20/2008
In our hair replacement clinic, we usually remove all of the sutures by day ten. However, we occasionally use coetaneous (skin) sutures which will dissolve in two weeks or so. More commonly, patients think that there are sutures still in place and its actually just dry skin/scabs along the suture line that needs more vigorous cleaning. Finally, with our...
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Female Hair Loss and Realistic Hair Replacement Expectations - 4/13/2008
just finished seeing a delightful 62 year old woman who has hairloss. She has some other medical issues that may be contributing to her problem and may be correctable, but she and I had a nice discussion about my philosphy on female hair loss and hair replacement surgery.
We discussed that my hair restoration practice is 98% male patients and that in general, if I take a man and frame his face with a nice tightly packed hair transplant procedure, or correct a vertex bald patch, I can usually make him extremely happy. Even men with a lot of thinning hair, can often achieve superb results by framing the face with what is left in the donor hair region.
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When to Stop Drinking and Smoking Prior to and After Hair Transplant Surgery - 3/24/2008
A lot of literature discusses the increased risk of infection and skin slough (loss) in smokers undergoing hair replacement surgery. Although this is much more risky in facial surgery (in which I require patients to stop smoking for 10 days prior to (more important than after actually))surgery); wound infection is more likely in any surgery in smokers. I advise all hair transplant patients of...
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