This fellow is about 15 months out from a nice case in which we reconstructed a nice frontal hairline in a previously transplanted area. I think that his previous transplant had done OK, BUT, he had lost much of his natural hair in that area, leaving the transplant looking quite sparse.

Although he has very dark hairs and light scalp skin, he has gotten a nice result; and his scar was touched up with our procedure by excising the old 3-4mm wide scar.

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

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McLean, VA

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Considering where this guy was this is a good result.IMO he does need one more procedure though to have a good cosmetic result

Thanks Dakota 3. He may be back at some point.

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

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William H. Lindsey, MD, FACS
McLean, VA

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

Dr. Lindsey,

I agree with dakota that this result looks good.

How is his donor density and laxity for future work? He still seems to have a pretty large area to cover if he decides he wants to come back for coverage.

Best wishes,

Bill

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I think we can get 2000-2500 grafts and still have an acceptable scar if he wants to come back. I would want him to do scalp stretching exercises for a few weeks prior to help.

You know Bill, I have blogged on my amazement that scalp stretching does anything. There are 2 fairly well studied characteristics of skin, stress relaxation and skin creep. These are mainly discussed with treatments such as tissue expanders (balloons that we insert beneath the skin to expand the skin over several weeks--I have used these primarily for total nasal reconstruction, but I have seen them used in the early 90's for scalp reductions). Having a patient squeeze their donor strip "ought" not to work because the duration isn't continuous; but it really makes a huge difference in our practice.

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

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William H. Lindsey, MD, FACS
McLean, VA

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