This 36 y/o male presented in 1999 for repair work on old plug transplants which he covered with a hair piece. Over the following 6 years, 4 sessions were done involving 2850 FU's, 535 Double-FU grafts, and 34 partial or whole "cut-outs" of old plugs with suture repair.

Man, that old work was nasty....great job, he must be thrilled!

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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!

That's nice work, doc. That guy looked 55 before you turned back the clock on him.....

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100? 'mini' grapfts by Latham's Hair Clinic - 1991 (Removed 50 plugs by Cooley 3/08.)
2750 FU 3/20/08 by Dr. Cooley

My Hair Loss Website - Hair Transplant with Dr. Cooley

Current regimen:
1.66 mg Proscar M-W-F
Rogaine 5% Foam - every now and then
AndroGel - once daily
Lipitor - 5 mg every other day
Weightlifting - 2x per week
Jogging - 3x per week

Another life restored. He must be thrilled.

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My hair is a man made disaster.

Weren't those plugs nice, I would have left them in there, they would help him stand out in a crowd!

Just kidding of course! Plugs and the doctors who did these in the old days I have no respect for. I realize it was the only technology back then but WTF, after seeing how these turned out continued to do them?? Guys were not given patient pics to look at and see how these would look either. Ah, the good old days of HT.

Good work Doctor, you gave this guy his life back.

it never ceases to amaze me just how bad those old plugs looked.

Still, he must be very happy now. Great work.
Dr beehner, was there any reason why the patient needed 4 repair sessions?

With reference to the patient's work being done over 4 sessions over those 6 years, the reasons were several: Foremost was the patient's financial limits and his need to go slow on that account; Second, our sessions 6 years ago were smaller than they are now. We now routinely place the same amount of hair in two sessions we used to take 3-4 to accomplish. And the last reason, which would even today make me divide up the work on a project like this to some degree, is the fact that when a patient has had a lot of old work, especially old scalp reductions or large plugs, there is a disruption of blood supply to the scalp, and any work done has to respect this fact and not be so dense as to overtax the ability of the scalp's blood supply to nourish any new grafts planted.
Mike Beehner, M.D.

Great work.

He must be very happy. That old work was horrible!

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1417 FUT - Dr. True
1476 FUT - Dr. True
2124 FUT - Dr. True
604 FUE - Dr. True







My views are based on my personal experiences, research and objective observations. I am not a doctor.

Total - 5621 FU's uncut!

What a transformation for this guy.Having to live with those plugs must have been so hard.
At least now he can look forward and have a much better quality of life.

This is somewhat unfair. You have to walk before you run and nobody would have reached today's state of the art without yesterday's state of the art.

You are forgetting that with no other option available, for many men the option of plugs was once upon a time better than the option of bald.

The other thing about plugs was that everybody knew that to achieve a semi-natural result you needed multiple sessions to fill in the gaps. This particular patient may have stopped that process in favor of the hair piece.