Dr. William Lindsey

Its certainly not as much of a sure thing as putting hair into virgin scalp. Here's a video of a talk I gave a few years ago. I think we're 14 for 14 in putting hair in scar in this video. I've seen 3 or 4 more back since then doing ok, including my son, and I posted his case in April on the forums. In fact his problem now is that TOO much of his FUE into the scar has grown and he now has a thick patch on the side of his head.... Dr. Lindsey

Good assessment. Nobody has ever accused me of good photography...but, I have LOTS of videos where I film guys we have done, inside or outside our office, combing or holding their hair back....Anybody can get a couple of slick pics or videos...I know...several local competitors have fantastic videos and pics of patients they may or may not have done..or may be part of an automated machine marketing strategy.... so you are correct to look for a variety of cases and a track record. Dr. Lindsey

In this video, I show how we "fix" a sparse hairline with dense packing, and the intraop technique of packing along side existing but spaced out grafts is shown. Also we go over why not to simply fall into the trap of sprinkling a little hair over a lot of bald head.... The video is: Dr. Lindsey

This guy is my age, stopped in last week for a 6 month check. And what a great day for him to come....As I've posted lots of times...on average you start growing about 4.5-5 months and peak at 13... Well the day this fellow showed up, we had a guy way behind schedule...who of course wonders if things will ever grow, and then this guy shows up looking pretty well done (although I suspect he still has 30% more to grow). Why the difference? No idea. Both guys were done by me, same staff, virtually the same case... and of the 2...the slow growing guy had "better hair....meaning fatter roots). Fortunately almost everyone...note I'm saying ALMOST everyone, does grow and grow well, if they are operated on by a reputable team with a good track record. Now unfortunately, with the advent of "profit center" mentality and rent a tech FUE systems...that is becoming less the standard. So guys..do your research BEFORE you have surgery. But this guy is growing great and we'll get him back in the spring for a final pic. And down the road we may see his crown. Listen to the video...his girlfriend has not figured out that he had a HT. Now that is a good case if I say so myself! Dr. Lindsey The video is:

Now this is a topic that probably ONLY affects me out of all of you guys. Hair cloning will happen, just not in my practice lifetime (10-12 years)...so all you guys thinking its 3 years out....are almost certainly mistaken. Now I could be wrong, I'm just not wrong very often and I'm pretty sure I'm not wrong on this. I don't know what year cloning and it's application in people will occur but it will start with the cure of diabetes first. Once you see every doctor offering pancreatic islet cell cloning and transplants..then we're 10 years or less for hair. Just my guess, but its a pretty educated guess. I'll be long retired, as will every other currently practicing hair doctor over the age of 35...by the time it is really a threat to our industry. And even then..society will need someone to harvest the sample, design the treatment plan, and employ techs to place all of those jar-grown hairs in an aesthically pleasing fashion. Yes, you'll still have people doing poor work, maybe even more frequently if there is an "unlimited" supply of hair to work with. Gene therapy....where you get a shot and an adenovirus, or its equivilent, infects all of your cells and makes the hair-growing ones make hair, is much further off in the future. So how does this affect me? Well....number one son, just started college...and has worked at my office for 4.5 years as a cutter during summer and Christmas holidays... He appears to be heading pre-med, through absolutely zero pressure from me. Well....do I tell him hair will be a good career in 20 years? Man I have no idea. While Dr. Feller and I disagree about robots....he thinks they'll never be as good as people, I think that we are currently at the dumb-phone stage of hair robots. Give it 10 years, and maybe we'll be at the i-phone stage, where the phone really is better at finding and removing hair...and maybe even placing it than people. I just don't know but I am not ready to bet against technology. So...my advice to son...get the best education you can and make decisions that allow you to adapt to the changing world. Meaning...my career path of ENT and facial plastic surgery..then doing hair, would allow for me/him to not starve, if hair changes radically in 20 years. But I'm telling you guys...all this cloning stuff will not happen before I retire, and if it did...I'd have a lot more business! An unlimited supply of hair from all you class 6 and 7s...man I'd be able to "fix" anyone! Dr. Lindsey

Ok guys, here's a case we're seeing all too commonly these days. This fellow alledgedly paid for 3500 FUE's and looks like he has a few hundred grafts that worked. He was supposed to have a frontal hairline and they were going to place enough in his frontal third, without trimming hairs to see the slits...., that he wouldn't have to worry about this area in the future. Well he has lots of scars, so he did have an FUE, but he has lots of scars with hair growing out of them...meaning they probably transplanted hairs without roots, which obviously won't grow. And he has in the center, lots of donor depletion, probably as that was the easiest area to actually get roots and transplant them. Finally he has very fine hair...much less tolerant of FUE stress than thicker hairs. In this video, which is long, I go into all of these topics. Although this guy went to Turkey, I admit openly this could happen ANYWHERE...in fact I would guess I'm seeing someone like this about every third week, almost all who have gone to a doctor just getting into hair and who has bought the latest scar free machinery. I think we are now approching 90 strip or mfue repairs of automated fue cases. And since that damages the donor area, and lowers the patient's bank account balance...its best to do all your research up front. FUE has a place, and in my opinion its for thicker hairs, more limited cases, and guys who have to have an extremely short haircut. I did FUE on my son for those exact reasons and posted his case earlier this year. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Some of you may recall this guy from WAY back. He arrived years ago with class 6 hairloss, wanting only FUE. We did 3000 or so FUE's on him in a couple of procedures, 2 pretty close together and then one a year later. Now this fellow is the kind of guy I grew up with...I can relate to him. While I think we could have done 2 strip cases on him and polished off 85% of his scalp in a year....there is no reasoning with a self-made man who wants what he wants... So we did the FUE, made it through a few years of turmoil in his family and mine (when my daughter was really sick we did one of his cases) and he of course wanted a little more hair. That's because he had a lot of head to cover AND 3000 fue is not the same as 3000 via strip (times 2 for 2 cases he likely had in him). Finally he decided that he wanted to let his hair grow about 3/4 of an inch or 1.5 cm for you metric guys, and he'd leave it like that "forever". Well he has tons of little scars, but no real donor depletion in his occipital region, but would not entertain a strip. So we did an MFUE on him about 10 months ago, and I video'd it and posted it. Its included with this thread for those of you who have not seen it. Now I've posted LOTS of mfue scarring and in general, we get a bunch of 1 cm by 1.5mm scars, that, just like strip scars, get worse for several months and then fade. And I'd say that I've had 2 or 3 poorer scars with mfue, just the same rate that I have poor strip scars with 2 or 3 layer trichophytic closures....thus patient healing plays a role in mfue scarring too. (I've posted a few videos on those scars as well....not many doctors will post their poorer scars to accompany their good scars for full patient educational value). Anyhow, about 2 weeks out from his mfue, I get an email on a Friday night, about 11pm...he'd been drinking with friends and decided to shave his head...and was shocked at his 2 week mfue scars...which were perfectly normal. I reminded him that he told me he was "certain" that he'd gotten over shaving his head. I think he replied "yeah, but...." So as expected his scars improved, I think he was too busy to come by for a visit but recently emailed in this selfie showing a really nice hairline. He now wants to FUE into a few mfue scars, most apparently are hard to find, but a few are more noticable as he's back to a #2 cut in the back. To summarize, this fellow has been a regular and is a good guy but a character with an independent streak. He has gone from BALD to a nice head of hair and is still greedy. I am sure we'll see him for something in the next few months and I'll try to get a video to post. Dr. Lindsey Attached pictures show him way back and at 4 years, and then just before the mfue, and then the selfie. The video of his mfue is here:

Doing a second case on this guy's younger brother right now. After a valium...he agrees, guy in this video has a fine hairline and ought to sit tight! And its almost certainly all the of those guys' destiny to lose the middle third and maybe crown....so they need to conserve hair for the future. Dr. Lindsey

Most importantly I tried to, and likely did, beat it into his and his mom's head, that he'll need a second case later, that we needed to do a hairline that would age well...maybe not look perfect at age 23 but will not look goofy in 10 years, and that he has a finite amount of pretty good donor hair...but we need them all to "work". Dr. Lindsey

Mickey I've posted several on various forums and have 2 or 3 up on my youtube site. Should be easy to find how I do it and all the intrap pics too. Dr. Lindsey

Who is doing the cutting and sewing is probably the MOST important factor. Previous history or family history of poor scarring...thus patient physiology, is a close 2nd. Scar treatment after sutures removed MAY help and that's why I push our patients to do it. And probably some as yet undetermined genetic/physiologic issues which for now I call luck or lack thereof. Best bet...see if your doctor posts alot of his scars at a year...then you'll know more. Dr. Lindsey

Here's a video in which I go into some of the more common questions YOU should know, from YOUR doctor, before you sign up. Its an informal informational session that Wendy and I did this morning going over a bunch of the questions we get each week. We'll do another video or 2 for more questions in the coming month. This is by no means all inclusive--but ought to give most guys the questions, and our answers, they need to ask. Dr. Lindsey The video is:

This fellow stopped in yesterday, now 5 years and a month out from a frontal case. He lives a few hours away and is a health care provider. He's holding up well...you guys may note in the video (hence the intro I put on it...) that it looks like we had no growth on a little area on the right. He clarifies that in that he shaves it as a partline. Additionally, his scar is IMPERCEPTIBLE, not the line you see too low on his scalp where he styles it that way. I have lots of talks and videos discussing how almost everyone will need HALF INCH long hair to cover strip scars...forever. Fortunately my average strip scar on a virgin head is about a pencil lead width...but I get 4 wide scars each year. I just don't know who is going to get them... Well this fellow sent lots of pics as he grew in and he's a testament to good sewing, good healing, and maybe good luck. Enjoy. The video is: Dr. Lindsey

Viewers may recall this lady's mfue repair of an eyebrow scar. She popped in this morning before leaving our area and I got this short video. Now as I mention...it takes 18 months to get the final result in scar tissue but she's got some growth already, which is allowing her to camoflage the problem easily AND she's having to trim some hair as expected. Hopefully we'll get her back in a year or so and get followup. The surgical video is attached to the end of today's shoot so people can see the entire story. Dr. Lindsey The video is:

So I recently posted a video about how guys should simply leave their hair longer and comb it over the hair transplant after a few days to conceal the work from others... Well, here is a great example of a lady doing the same thing. Shown are her preop and intraop pics, a relatively poor cleaning picture at a week..despite coming in at day 3 for us to clean...and one month pics with her hair combed forward ( you can't see any evidence of the case ) and pulled back showing grafts have shed and normal expected skin redness, in this irish lady, at a month. That'll fade quickly and in a few weeks will be gone, and a few weeks later she OUGHT to see some hair starting to grow. Hopefully we'll get follow up to post. Additionally look at her scar at a week and a month. Difficult to see even with her fine hair around it. Dr. Lindsey

Thanks Spex. Can you believe its been a year since we all got together to watch the rugby world championships with our friends and our patient in London? What a night. How time flies, another year older and less hair which is more gray for me... Dr. L

This late 30s black female doctor had 2 strip cases elsewhere leaving her with 2 scars, mostly joined...that she wants improved. In this video I show the entire procedure, from numbing medicine to discharge. I do make the comment...that like most doctors who swear they'll follow instructions...she didn't come for suture removal. As of this morning I did hear from her by email that her mom took her sutures out but she didn't reply back about whether she was starting scar care... DOCTORS..make the worst patients! Well, hopefully we'll see her again and update the progress. The video is: Dr. Lindsey

Thanks for posting. See you next spring.. Spanker...I'm glad you did the same thing. You have a lot of credibility on the forum....excellent advice to go shaggy preop. Dr. L

This fellow is 6 months and 2 weeks out from a nice frontal case. While he did poor cleaning and I did a short video on that 6 months ago, when he stopped by this week, he's growing well. He lives nearby and hopefully we'll see him next spring. The video is: (I accidentally posted his video with a scar repair case as well....so if you're seeing this twice, that is why. I was posting and stopped to see a patient.) Dr. Lindsey

Sorry guys...I was posting 2 threads and had to talk to a patient and submitted the 2nd video. Here is the intended video.

This fellow may be familiar to frequent viewers. He's now 5 weeks out from a frontal case and looks like he is supposed to. His scar is ok and I'd expect him to get a nice result next year... The important part of this is picking your doctor carefully the first time. Its way easier and cheaper to do things correct the first time. Dr. Lindsey The video is:

Here's a younger guy, 5 weeks or so out from a frontal case, who simply combs his hair forward and conceals all evidence of surgery. In a few months he'll be able to style it however he wants...but rather than cutting his hair preop....leaving things a little longer simply give the patient lots of options on concealment. The video is: I asked him to come on and make a comment or address any questions, hopefully we'll hear from him before his 6 month visit. Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

The crazy thing Blake is that I post LOTS of videos...and this month...at least half of the people coming in reference this video as to why they called....and it has virtually nothing to do with guys balding. I'm looking forward to seeing this young fellow next summer. And getting pics of his results up close and outside in the sunlight too. Dr. Lindsey

Here's a 23 year old guy, who came with his mom, for consultation and we agreed on a frontal third case, likely to be followed next year by a second case behind this procedure. I've posted LOTS of threads and several videos on my rationale for young guys' hair transplants...and feel free to review, particularly the videos on my youtube site that deal with this topic. Essentially there are 3 issues. 1. Bring your parents...you'll make a better decision if you involve someone you trust and your decision making matures at 25 or so (took that long for me!) 2. I'm doing a hairline that will look ok at 50, not a hairline that looks like all your 23 year old buddies, which will look goofy in 20 years. 3. you are buying this to last forever...take your time and make the best decision for you for the long term. So this fellow popped in this week and as usual...wants to know if more growth will come...OF COURSE, its growing faster than I'd expect and is just getting started. He's leaving the country next spring so hopefully we can get him in for final pics...and a second case, if he is ready. Day of surgery, day 3, day 7, 1 month with scar and 4 month pics are shown. Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

This nice young lady is 6 months out from hairline advancement by hair transplantation. In the video I discuss the options for women with this condition, and review her case. Dr. Lindsey The video is: