This patient is about 60 and has very fine hair. His favorable characteristics included salt and pepper hair, and a high proportion of three and four hair follicular units. I prescribed finasteride and on 05/17/07 he had 4, 060 FU grafts to the frontal half. On 10/31/07, he had 2, 557 FU grafts to the entire area, including the temples and crown. The high number of 3 and 4 hair grafts, which can sometimes be interpreted as two follicular units, allowed for good coverage over the entire scalp. For a patient with a fine hair, we generally keep these together as one graft. In this patient, keeping these together resulting in 15, 471 hairs from 6617 grafts (2.34 hairs/graft). For the patient with coarse hair, especially when doing the hairline, we may create two grafts (i.e. 1 and 2 hair grafts) instead.

His hair counts were as follows

grafts hairs
1s 949 949
2s 3065 6130
3s 2020 6060
4s 583 2332

# 6, 617 15,471 (two sessions)

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Very nice. He must be thrilled.

Bloody Amazing!
Congratulations.

Ray
Sydney, Australia

excellent result.

That's an excellent result. Very natural hailine. Nice work.

Formerly TooThin

Dr. Cooley

This patient has had a great result. This is a very challenging case when dealing with patients who have very thin hair as you have to balance how much to cover at the same time providing enough density to produce an acceptable and natural result. Based on your description, this patient, although he has thin hair, has a nice distribution of 2, 3, and 4 hair follicular units which allowed for a nice balance to produce this result. Nice job.

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Steve Gabel, M.D.
Portland, Oregon

Dr. Gabel is a member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

Dr. Cooley,

This is another amazing result. I'm sure this patient is ecstatic with his new head of hair.

Best wishes and Happy New Year,

Bill

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Dr. Cooley,

As my nephew likes to say," Mother of Pearl." Wow, what a great result. Your patient must be very happy.

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Another great example of a Cooleyfied patient.

Mick

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