Abbie

Before Surgery:

• Prior strip harvesting procedure
  
• Yielded unsatisfactory growth, left his hairline receded
  
• Strip scar resulted
  
• Patient wanted an advanced hairline and his linear scar concealed
  

Surgery:

• Goal: restore hairline to a youthful fullness and fill linear scar
  
• FUE hair transplant of 1500 head and nape grafts, with nape hair used at the front of the hairline
  

Surgery Results:

• Results are from 7 months post-surgery
  

Before Surgery:

• Started as NW 7; almost completely bald
  
• Prior follicular unit extraction surgery with Dr. Umar using 8,000 grafts from beard and some from head to give global coverage
  
• Good outcome, patient returned seeking added density
  

Surgery:

• Goal: add more global density
  
• FUE hair transplant adding 4,000 more grafts, for a total of 12,000 grafts after two surgeries
  

Surgery Results:

• Final photo results are from 6 months post-second procedure. These photos supplied by patient. Video results are from one-year post-first procedure.
  

Learn more about FUE hair restoration at DermHair Clinic.

You can also watch the video here: http://www.dermhairclinic.com/patient-videos/nw7-severe-baldness-hair-restoration-by-fue-and-bht-dr-umar/

Before Surgery:

• Prior strip harvesting procedure
  
• Prior follicular unit extraction surgery
  
• Insubstantial yield, deformed hairline, and linear scar resulted
  
• Patient wanted his hairline restored, his temple points filled in, and his linear scar concealed.
  

Surgery:

• Goal: add density to the temple points, restore hairline, and cover up linear scar.
  
• FUE hair transplant repair using 2500 head hair grafts for the frontal scalp, with nape hair concentrated at the hairline, and 350 beard hair grafts used for the linear scar.
  

Surgery Results:

• Results in photos and video are from 4 years post-surgery
  

Hello and Happy New Year, all. I am posting on behalf of Dr. Umar. His reply to this thread is this:

For most individuals, nape hair* is more DHT resistant than the hair in the area of baldness. In other words, nape hair is not necessarily lost in all cases of MPB. What more? The safe donor area (SDA) is functionally the area bordering the fringe of hair that would be left in a terminally bald person. (NW7+). yet we know that the majority of individuals do not experience this degree of baldness. The role of nape hair has hitherto been defined by:

1. The notion that it is generally DHT susceptible

2. It is not typically an area subject to harvest given the limitations of the strip harvesting methods available.

The second factor has been cancelled by the advent of FUE. Since then nape and temple hair (donor areas outside the SDA) have been widely used in successful repairs of strip-donor- depleted patients. These would be patients whose capacity for further strip surgeries has been exhausted. It is the extension of these experiences with repairs that opened the prospect of using nape hair as the vanguard hair of transplanted hairlines. Obviously, patient selection is key. Using criteria such as the degree of baldness relative to age, visual evidence etc. nape hair can play an important role in hair transplantation.

* For the purpose of this discussion, nape hair use in hairline and temple creation refers to hair in the area below the SDA including areas around the ears.

Hi SugarHighs. Thanks for your question. Dr. Umar says: After 6 weeks it would be fine to tan. Just avoid getting sun burnt in the grafted area

Before Surgery:

• Hairline recession and thinning hair over mid-front scalp and crown
  
• No prior surgery
  
• Knew he would wear a short buzz cut, thus he did not want a linear scar
  

Surgery:

• Goal: advance the hairline and add density using few grafts
  
• FUE hair transplantusing 3000 grafts to fill in a large area; nape hairs used to bring hairline forward.
  

Surgery Results:

• For a short hair cut, less densely packed follicular units will contribute to a shadow effect that gives the illusion of fullness with FUE hair transplants
  
• Results shown are at 10 months post-operation
  

To find out more about FUE hair transplant at DermHair Clinic, click here.

You can also view the video here: http://www.dermhairclinic.com/fue-hair-restoration-3000-grafts/

Thank you for the warm welcome, TakingThePlunge! It is my pleasure to share Dr. Umar's work. Here are photos showing the donor and recipient sites immediately post-op. Happy holidays!

Before Surgery:

• Hairline recession
  
• No prior surgeries
  

Surgery:

• Goal: achieve a conservative restoration and advance the hairline
  
• FUE using 1450 grafts derived from the head and nape of the neck
  

Surgery Results:

• Before and after pictured below at 8 months after surgery
  

Learn more about hair transplant with Dr. Umar.

You can also watch the video here: http://www.dermhairclinic.com/fue-hair-transplants-result-follicular-unit-extraction/