This 38 year-old man had a Norwood 5 -6 thinning pattern of hair loss with a thinning midfrontal forelock. He has black, average diameter hair with average follicular units.

He fully expected to progress to the Norwood 6 pattern that many other family members have reached. He did start Finasteride and Minoxidil right after his consultation.

He chose a front-to-back approach and concentrated on finishing the front in this session of 3085 grafts. He had single haired grafts in lateral slits in his hairline then @ 50 fug per square cm in his forelock and behind his hairline then 44 then 38. Perhaps because of the novelty of having hair again, he has kept his hair a bit longer than I would recommend at the 11 month mark ??¦ but it's his hair so he can wear it how he likes.

His scalp was not flexible but his donor hair was dense so his strip was just under 1 cm wide. He had a trichophytic lower ledge closure (Rose technique) but I hadn't started routine undermining yet (as per Dr. Frechet). His donor scar was easily hidden but not 'invisible.'

He recently had a second session of 1799 grafts to his midscalp, but of course nothing is growing there yet. His old scar was excised and revised with short-width undermining and trichophytic, single-layer closure.

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Cam Simmons MD ABHRS
Canadian Hair Transplant Centre,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

This looks like a very nice result! One question though???? It appears that the grafts were placed in the frontal 2/3rds but part of the crown appears to have had some growth is this because of meds of am I missing something?

on 2nd glance it does appear the angle of pictures are different

Hi dakota3

You are right. His crown is no better or worse than it was last year.

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Cam Simmons MD ABHRS
Canadian Hair Transplant Centre,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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