WeeBeansysBro

10 hours ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

Why don't you send him a private message here?

Sent him a pm and he got back to me this morning! Think it was a fault on my side that my consultation form didn't get to him 

Dr Lindsey,

I sent an enquiry to your Facebook page and via your website regarding a scar repair but had no reply, could you get in touch?

Thanks 

John 

5 hours ago, 1978matt said:

The scar seems to be in the wrong location to take a strip.  For that reason (my non doctor guess) is that it's probably better to FUE into it.

Probably needs 200 grafts or something.

May be bad location but still could be reduced in width by tricho closure  if all goes well do you think ? 

1 hour ago, DrTBarghouthi said:

Thank you for the mention @JohnAC71

@WeeBeansysBro while your widened scar may have been caused by several reasons: technique, skin type, skin laxity etc., I do note that it is somehow in an atypical plane. There is usually a reason why most strip scars you see are sort of curved and not a straight line from one end to the other. This is mainly to accommodate for the ligns of tension in the scalp which gives better closure and scarring. If you close skin in the right anatomical plane then this gives you the best chances of having a decent scar. There are other things that can help and that is having trichophytic closure in order to allow some hair to grow in the scar edges. From what I can see, the plane of incision seems too horizontal instead of curving and following the plane of your tension lines. I am not implying that this is the main cause, but I do think that repair in such a case will probably not be complete as it is wide and skin there is usually under more tension. 

Thanks Dr. Would you not recommend a tricho closure then? I am thinking the worst case scenario of a tricho closure would be a scar that is just as wide but smoother and flatter than currently is which would help for future FUE.

6 hours ago, JohnAC71 said:

Keep up the consultations 👏 you will get a short list of Drs that will do it. Feriduni is a very good option. I believe there is a slow down in getting a surgery date at his clinic since coronavirus. Were you already able to consult with them via zoom ?

Yeah spoke with him over zoom last month, had set that up last year so there is a quite a wait for Zoom consults at least. He said his clinic has caught up on bookings now. Think there is a 3/4 month wait for procedures at the moment

3 hours ago, JohnAC71 said:

A decent clinic/Dr would be able to do a scar revision and hopefully reduce it to pencil thin. Depends where your looking to get it done ? As a lot of places are now   FUE only. However there are still a lot of US clinics doing FUT/Revisions. 
Another option would be Dr Bisanga/BHR. Dr Bicer has a scar revision case on the forum which is very good. I believe @DrTBarghouthiis another good option. 

I am in Europe John. Was thinking of going with Feriduni. Bisanga and also Lupanzula would not do it due to risks of it rewideninig. Ball at the Maitland clinic suggested it. Having some docs say no and some say yes to revision only leads to my confusion! ha 

Hi all,