That's a textbook example of when they say dolls hair! How in the world could the hair transplant industry have ever settled on that method in the past?

Repair cases interest me very much and you did a stellar job Dr. Beehner. It is completely natural looking now.

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Damn, with all the stuff you put in your hair are you like a negative NW1?

Dr Beehner
Did you actually excise all of the old plugs, or is there some camouflaging of existing plugs going on?

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Dr Rahal in January 19, 2012
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I really don't know the percentage of hairs that are present today that are in the exact same location they were when he first presented to me. I would guess somewhere between 40-50% are still intact where they started in the large plugs. The "Lucas technique" uses a 2.0mm or 2.25mm diameter electric punch and cores down through the firmed-up large graft. This firmness is created by "tumescing" the tissues around the graft with saline solution which is injected prior to doing this.
The way I approach this is that, at the first repair session, I remove several hairs from the large grafts near the periphery (front, back, and sides) which appear most "tree-trunk-like" and then a year later at a second surgery, I again look through the patient's hair from the four views and then again will core out with this punch a portion of those grafts that appear this way.

Mike Beehner, M.D.