33 y.o. male developing NW 5/6 pattern, came in to restore his hair as much as possible. It was decided to focus on restoring his hairline,Frontal , midscalp, and crown as yield permitted.He wished to avoid pharmacotherapy. Hair characteristics were favorable, medium caliber shaft, good donor density and elasticity.

Strip harvest yielded 4032 FU:
0ne hair FU 483
Two hair FU 1733
Three hair FU 1370
Four hair FU 322
Five hair FU 124

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Dr. Arocha,

Thank you for posting these very honest pictures. Very nice result. I'm sure this patient is very happy with his result.

Bill

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i am confused as the pictures are very blurry and have very bad lighting not to mention the poor angles that the pictures are taken at. how can you honestly say these are "very" honest pictures? the lighting is terrible and its not clear at all where the 4032 grafts were placed. other dr's seem to get slatted if their picture seem in someway manipulated or not accurately compared yet this set of blury poor lite ones are getting praise..... and is this seriously 4032 grafts??? where is the very honest top shot immediately post op??

I agree that (at least to me) some of the angles are poor (+ blurryness and lighting issues) and make it difficult for me to fully see and appreciate the transformation; it does, nonetheless look like he has gained good density in quite a large area where he had none.

Pictures 3 and 4, as well as the last two where the best, imo.

EDIT -- 5 and 6 vgood too; and good point Bill that the clinic posted pictures when the hair is in a wet/gelled state, didn't notice that first look around.

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*A Follicles Dying Wish To Clinics*

1 top-down, 1 portrait, 1 side-shot, 1 hairline....4 photos. No flash.

Follicles have asked for centuries, in ten languages, as many times so as to confuse a mathematician.

Enough is enough! Give me documentation or give me death!

Frog,

I don't know what you are confused about. There is probably one blurry photo out of the bunch of them posted. For a clinic to post a semi-top down after result with wet hair is very honest. Many clinics will post the most flattering of pictures which doesn't always show an accurate representation of the result. Are these perfect high resolution photos? No - but they are honest nonetheless.

I agree that top down before/after pictures and additional immediately postoperative pictures would be helpful.

Bill

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glad you can see what i mean but hardly any of the pictures are good quality and there is no lighting at all to clearly show the work in my opinion. you think they are all nice clear well lite and not dark at all then Bill...?
can we see a scar picture as well, a clear well lit one please?
was this 4000+ surgery all in one session or multiple sessions as its not clear. please can you clarify with clearer pictures thank you in advance.

Frog,

Read my post again and you will have no reason to ask whether or not I think they are "all nice clear well lit and not dark".

Where did I say they were perfectly clear and perfectly lit? I stated they were honest. I've also explained my logic for this so don't twist my words. However, in my opinion, some of the pictures are very clear and if you take them collectively, the result is obvioius.

I've already agreed that additional photos are helpful.

Bill

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After the fuss over the pictures..i think i will need to buy a decent digIital camera else people can get shot down it appears ;-)

Not sure if my pics in my weblog are of good enuf standard for all.

but joking aside, this results look ok. i think Bill's comments were spot on, nothing wrong IMHO.

FS

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