31 year old male with a NW 3, wanted to start to restore his hairline and frontal areas.


1 hairs-289
2 hairs-909
3 hairs-662
4 hairs-124
5 hairs- 83
total FU's 2067

For more information:www.arochahairrestoration.com

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Clear improvement Dr. Arocha.

Thanks for posting.

Bill

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That scar looks undetectable. What does two layer closure mean? What is the difference between that and a trichophytic (sp?) closure?

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It's magic. Poof the scar is gone! LOL. Thats incredible! Forget about the hair " which looks good BTW" Im amazed w/ that scar.

Thanks to all of you for your kind comments. Whenever surgery is performed, there is always a scar. Scars are the body's attempt to heal. However, scars respond with increased laying down of collagen (scar tissue) , to tension vectors applied to the wound margins. In a two-layer closure, the first layer does most of the work to minimize tension forces on the superficial layer, thereby producing minimal scars. The other principle in making scars nearly invisible applied here, is the use of follicle sparing suturing techniques. These techniques avoid the strangulation of the follicle , interdigitating between the follicles and remaining very superficial. Note that I prefer to avoid the use of tricophytic closure, unless this will be the last surgery. The reason is that the tricophytic closure causes a distortion of the hair architecture along the scar area,which will decrease the donor yield.

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Does any other doctor use this method? Do you use this method w/ all patients who plan on other procedures down the road? It just seems that it's such a good result that maybe it should be adopted as the standard!?!?!

Very nice doctor. Strangulation of the follicle is one of the reasons Dr Bernstein started using staples. Glad you found away around that.
Im not convinced staples are better ,just easier for the doctor. I think it also depends on the person and the situation.
Ive had staples twice and sutures twice. Sutures were by far the winner for me.
I had a reaction both times from staples that resulted in inflamation and stretch.
Not saying that staples wouldnt have produced the same scar in these pictures but this shows sutures are second to none.

Two-layer closure is well described surgical technique, trico-sparing techniques are not always employed. Also keep in mind that tension vectors, whatever the origin, applied to the scar that has not matured will stretch or augment the scar. I refer you to the article"Post-surgical scars in Hair Restoration Surgery" , which can be found on my web site under articles. A scar can take between 6-12 months to mature.

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Where to begin with this guy.......

*The before pictures don't match the after pictures
*The after pictures are darker than the before pictures. He is a blond in the before pictures and a brunette in the after pictures.
* There is total comb over in the after pictures that cover the transplant area
*The operation pictures are blurry and too close and don't allow for any kind of evaluation or counting.
*No way that tiny strip produced 2000 grafts. No other doc on this site has ever shown such a small strip for so many grafts.
*The amount of coverage for a 2000 graft operation is very poor.

If I were this guy I would be very dissatisfied when I compared it to doc Feller,doc Hasson, or doc (ron or paul) Shapiro.
Bruce

The hair color isnt what would throw me off. My hair would change differant colors depending on what season it is. Dark brown in the winter, and light brown in the summer, so i dont question this pic on that fact. Also his hair is longer in the after pics which could make it appear darker.

As far as the strip goes, it seems pretty standard to me! You have to take the donar density/elasicity into account when questioning the length of strip vs # of grafts.

If you look at the 1st pic you can see a small indent in the center of his forehead "possibly from chicken pocks" and also see this same indent in the 3rd pic, so if you are trying to say this isnt the same guy i believe you are wrong.

As far as the comb over! It appears from his hair characteristics that this is the way his hair grows,

Bruceman, Are you always this negative?