Fithair

Originally posted by gfunk:

I had three hair transplant sessions done in the early nineties totally about 500 grafts. I was wondering with the new advances can they take the old grafts out and replant them in with the newer techniques? Has anybody out there had a similiar situation?

It is posible to remove the plugs and re-distribute them. All depend of your final goal..If you want to have more hair, you should consider to add new grafts to camouflag the pluggy look. Doctors can remove the big plugs in a second procedure if needed.

Removal takes usually more than one session and it depends on your final goal.

Originally posted by el guapo:

Hi tb

 

 

 

Feller and Cole I am still waiting to hear back from.

I believe that 3000 is more realistic.

 

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El guapo,

 

What hapen with Dr. Cole recomendation? If you have not received it yet, please let me know.

 

Your username means "handsome" in Spanish

 

Regards,

Originally posted by GaryinGA:

 

Also, I've been hearing a lot in other HT forums about a Dr. Cole (in Atlanta) as being a top doctor, but I see very little about him here in this forum. Anyone have their 2 cents about Dr. Cole?

 

Thanks

Dr. Cole performs all procedures in Atlanta. He performs different techniques and uses the best technique for each patient depending on their needs, goals or donor supplies. He does FIT, BHT, STRIP, and repair cases in his daily procedures. [Promotional link to Dr. Cole's website removed]

Originally posted by stillhere:

I don't know how it is with doctors in Australia, but in North America, the only doctor I know of that charges a fee for a consultation is Dr. Cole in Georgia, everyone else has a free consultation wheater on-line or in person.

Consults with Dr. Cole in Atlanta are FREE now! Consults outside of Atlanta are conducted by Mark Long, Dr. Cole's senior consultant. It is free of charge.

Thank you for the welcome and you fast reply.

I agree..more important than the name of the tecnique are the results. Dr. Cole is considered one the the leaders in the hair transplant industry. He has developed many techniques in order to insure consistent quality results. It is important that doctors have a wide variety of techniques and tools in order to achieve consistent results regardless of the donor area characteristics.

The principal diference is the instruments used. Regarding the instruments that we use to extract grafts in the donor site, we customized our punch according to the patient's hair characteristics. We have different tools with varied punches and we used them according to the donor caracteristics.

A graft has a different number of hairs. You can have 1, 2, 3 or 4 hairs in one graft. Each graft has a different diameter. That's why we customize our punch according to patient's hairs characteristics.

We are choosing a punch a little bit bigger than the graft we take so we make sure to get it entirely. With big punches, you will have a larger amout of hairs. In fact, for the same amount of grafts, you will displace more hairs, therefore more volume, therefore better coverage.

What about the scarring? Scar depends on everyone skin characteristics more than in punch size. The skin is elastic; after extraction those holes will shrink and it minimizes the scar size. This is a natural function of our body. You have tiny differences that could not be visible to a naked eye.

We must agree that any cut of your skin will end with some kind of scarring. The smaller the aggression, the better the scar. So, small punchs should definitely give less scar tissue. However, what we are looking at in hair transplant surgery is the non visibility to a naked eye of the scar.

Two things make the scar visible: its size and the hypopigmentation. The second one is far more important than the first. Because it creates more contrast with the surrounding skin. Hypo pigmentation or white scar is due to inflammatory cells that destroy the melanocytes and it depends a lot on skin characteristics and individual tendency to react to a trauma.

Here an interesting link Dr. Cole wrote recently:

Size Comparison Hair Transplant Study

http://www.forhair.com/hairtransplant/topic1455.html?highlight=fue