Dr. William Lindsey

In this short video I interview a pretty interesting fellow with good results at 9 months despite finer hair and a bad case of nerves postop.  This guy will only improve as he passes 12 or 13 months and looks UNREMARKABLE....  That is what we try to achieve with hair restoration.  An age appropriate hairline that does not look like a hair transplant.

He has one of the most interesting careers you can imaging and interacts with all kinds of people and told me people think he looks younger or rested..but not status post a hair transplant.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apt2IX6Ou5s

Dr Lindsey 
McLean VA

So results and growth arrive in a time frame bell curve...with the average final results somewhere around 13-14 months.  That said...I usually try to get guys to show up at 6 months when there is about 40 or 50 percent growth...to remind people it will get kind of better and worse and then better on out to a year  or a year and a half....

And of course when someone is a fast grower...everyone, me included, is all excited.  But for every fast grower...there is a slower one.  And then of course the patient starts to think its not working.  Forutunately "not working" is really rare at a reputable office and everyone...again me included...just needs to be patient.

So here is an example of a slow grower.  His case was unremarkable, we saw him at 9 months and really not much was happening.   Now by 9 months MOST people are pretty well growing...so I asked him to come back after 13 months.  Wendy saw him at a store and noted he was catching up and sure enough when he came in he's just about where he ought to be.  I expect to see him in the future and get a final update...but the message here is to be patient. 

I wish everyone was a fast grower...but it is simply not the case.   If you are a slower grower...communicate with your doctor...they almost certainly want you to get a good result as much as you do...  It can be frustrating when patients lose faith and go away before enough time is given.  I see people every other week who are 9 months out from a surgery from somewhere else...who have given up.  I tell them not to give up yet...to go back to their original doctor and if at 18 months or so they haven't significantly improved....then we can discuss options.

Lastly....while it would seem like finer hair folks would be the usual "slow growers" it is simply not the case...growth rates, fast and slow..appear to be equally spread across great hair, average hair, and weaker hair.  In fact a guy I play cards with with AWESOME hair....has been very slow to grow...and only now at 10 months is really kicking in and growing.

The video is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ulWZmm5tTw

Dr Lindsey 
McLean VA

Here's a short video with interview of a mid 30's guy who is 7 months out from his frontal case and has pretty typical growth at this point.   We're planning a 2nd case at a year and I'd expect him to have 40 or 50% better growth, thickness, and density by then...so our plan...as pretty much always...will be to excise his current scar, get 500 fewer grafts than his first case ( the scalp stretches a bit and we're excising the scar too) and we'll add 200 or so grafts to the front 1 cm...just to add density (My very first video on my website...."a collection of fine hair guys" goes into this in 20 min of detail if you're intersted..) and then we'll start where we left off and finish his middle and posterior thirds.  He's local and has a really interesting job so I'm certain we'll get a final video in 18 months or so.

The video is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiG2ktTAttg

Dr Lindsey 
McLean VA

In this short video we talk with our younger lebanese patient who has AWESOME donor hair to work with.  I've worked on several members of his family and he has the best hair and grows the fastest.  Listen to his brief interview and I'm sure we'll have a 1 year final update this fall.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bo7HwxX4d0

Dr Lindsey McLean VA

Here's a short video on a tough guy we repaired a few months ago.  He is a fun patient and just popped in so we did this short interview.  I filmed this a few months ago actually and 2 weeks ago ran into him at Safeway...and he really is growing...and I told him to spin by again so we can document his progress.

The video is :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rodyOheblfM

FYI...he appears to be growing faster than normal....in repair guys, I'd expect this after 6 months...not at 3 months.

Dr. Lindsey

I found this unposted video that we shot at the beginning of covid and never editted.  This guy has bushy wirey hair...which helps...but he'd gone to another location for 2 failed fue's before we got to repair him.

In the video we do an interview with the patient discussing what was different with our repair case...and then at the 4 min mark of the video I include intra-op clips where Wendy and I talk about what we think causes fue failure in many patients.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQlF-7bcegU

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Here's an update on a guy I posted last year.  He's about 40, fine hair, and we did 2500 up front.  Now he has VERY light hair and a little hair that is too low on his forehead....but you don't see that when he's blonde.  In the winter though...its obvious that he has hair too low...and should we have lowered his hairline?  Well....he might look a bit cro-magnon if we did that low.  We both know those hairs bleach to nearly invisible from March to November and will likely go away at some point.  Anyhow, we discuss that and his fine hair results in this short video.

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

In this short video with a patient interview, we show a fellow who had had previous surgery, was informed enough that when he shopped with me and several competitors..that he asked to look at the cutters and microscopes...and he says...saw one or 2 practices with ZERO scopes...just cutting by hand.

In any case, he looks UNREMARKABLE now and will likely thicken a bit more and maybe need another case in the future.  He's an interesting fellow and I hope we'll see him for a visit even if he doesn't need any more work done.

The video is:  

Dr Lindsey

McLean VA

I can't tell anyone how bummed this makes me.  Unfortunately privacy laws do not let me discuss things in detail. 

BUT, I'd gotten a concerning email from the patient about an hour ago while on a walk.  I responded with concern and an offer to see the patient this week and that I want both of us to be pleased...and then I get a notification from the forum that rather than discuss this in a private doctor patient manner working toward a good result, that I'm now the subject of scorn.

The patient can certainly publish my email response but I can't go into this further and find this to be a bummer for both of us.  As I can't really respond and expect the sharks to start to feed, I'll simply say that I want every patient to be satisfied and have a 24 year track record of working with patients, who remain cordial and not confrontational, to get results that we're both satisfied with.

Posting a one sided topic is not what I'd call remaining cordial.

Dr. Lindsey

Here's an early update on one of my closest friends.  He had radiation therapy that definitely hit his donor region 5 years ago.  After 19 years of talking about surgery, we got him in the chair Dec 19 and he sent 4 month pics on April 19 showing its starting to grow. 

Additionally, his donor scar is awesome...common in 70 year old guys as they have lost 70% of the "stuff" that pulls the skin and makes scars worse.... but that it is really good with no shockloss around the scarline in an irradiated field is even better.

He is one of the most upbeat guys I know...and I do think that having a good attitude more often that not...is associated with early growth.  Contrast that to another of my friends who has more of a "woe is me" attitude on life..and he's definitely slower growing even though he has bushy hair to work with and no radiation exposure.

We'll get updates on him and a final result and likely video come Christmas time.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwbvssFUD7s

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

In this video, Wendy cuts my hair which I grew out in protest.  At a medium length I appear to have more hair than when its longer, and when buzzed...you can see I don't have a lot of hair.

Its critical that you...the potential customer...realizes that doctors can't insert the same amount of hair you arrived on earth with...even if you had that much in a jug of hair....you have to leave room for blood supply and individual site placement.

But..depending on your hair characteristics...you probably have an ideal hair length that makes you look the best with the least amount of hair..or the amount that you can get transplanted.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hrF6Ob1Qic

Dr Lindsey 

McLean VA

We get asked pretty frequently to add some hair down from those "frontal triangles" to connect to the sideburn area.  Lots of books on hair transplantation show this and I do see a fair number of guys who have had it done and it frequently looks UNNATURAL.   First off the donor hair is usually thicker than sideburn hair, second..its hard to get it to lie flat with the skin like sideburn hair does, and lastly as people lose hair behind the transplant...it looks like the state of Florida or Baja California....in a sea of skin.

We go into this in this short video.

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Every so often we get a doozy.  So infrequently I don't even know how to spell doozy.    Last year we had 2.  This executive had  what I would call a disasterous result after several transplants including well known doctors.

Here he is at 6 months.  Not perfect, perfection is rarely achieved in surgery but definitely progress.  So much so that we do a short interview and I expect him to come back at 15 months or so.

At the end of the video are excerpts from his procedure.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUM8r36Bi6U

Dr Lindsey McLean VA

Here's a finer hair'd middle age guy who was quite nervous about getting a hair transplant.  We do a short interview and he's growing a bit ahead of schedule at 7 months.  As he's local, I suspect we'll get a final result interview later this year.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ajTHTQjZA4

Dr Lindsey McLean VA

This younger guy is yet another really tough fellow....he's a junior officer in the army and working toward special forces training.  I've known his mom for years and after he graduated college we talked.  Now a few years later he proceeded with a strip case AFTER we'd discussed scar potential and his haircut length requirements.   

He came in over Christmas and did a short video which shows him at 6 months.   I expect to see him this fall and get an interview.  

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWH3GE9iak

Dr Lindsey McLean VA

Some of you all will remember this fellow from previous videos.  He rolled in late last year and did this little interview which may be helpful particularly to newbies.  In it, we discuss his cases, his fine hair limitation, his color contrast, and how he picked me.  He also talks about the research he did before signing up and that is critical to folks not being sold a case that is not needed by a salesman....who works for a commission rather than a doctor trying to get the best results he/she can for the patient AND their practice.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrZ2P35H5Nc

Dr Lindsey McLean VA

In this brief video, we recap our patient's 8 year journey from class 3 or 4 hairloss to an age appropriate hairline that he says "catches the wind" in his convertible.   If you search way back, you'll see an interview video of him around 3 years out....this guy never ages, he looks the same as he did then, and indeed his skin looks the same as he did 8 years ago.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_rYjCGsPdU&feature=youtu.be

Dr. Lindsey

McLean VA

In this short video I interview a middle aged asian fellow now 5 year out from 2300 grafts up front.  He went from looking balding to looking UNREMARKABLE...and I show his scar up close, or lack thereof.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ph4z2OGjd0&feature=youtu.be

Dr Lindsey McLean VA

Here's a bushy haired fellow about my age 1 year out from 2500 up front.  He's got a bit more color contrast than I do but that "greg brady" type hair is the easiest to get good results with.  I have the same stuff...when my hair is grown out so I can say that!   No wonder I didn't get any dates til I cut my hair shorter in the 80s...  I was a decade behind the time.

Just a quick video. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_q-VQYeS5M&feature=youtu.be

Dr Lindsey McLean VA

Here's a good example of a younger guy with finer hair who is now 18 months out from his first case.  Second case likely to occur later this spring.   Interestingly he came in around Thanksgiving for this interview and his dad actually signed up and has had his case.   Surprisingly I think we got 300 more grafts out of his dad's strip than this fellow..likely because you lose 1% of the "stuff" that holds your body together, each year...so this fellow has lost say 26% but his dad had lost 60%....and had a stretchier scalp letting us get a bit more hair.   One of the few blessings of aging.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maATEddy81s

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Viewers of my hairline cases will note that I ALWAYS put a few "bumps" along the hairline to irregularize it...so that the person doesn't end up looking like they had a hair transplant....like 2 very prominent politicians that are perfect examples of poorly executed hair transplant PLANS.   

Well here is an example of a really tough fellow, a badass, who got 1400 grafts by me, and in the plan pic, you will see that I did indeed put a few irregularizing bump outs along the hairline..but dog gone...at 14 months, I think he has a bit of a too straight hairline.   

He wants a couple more hairs, for what spot I'm not actually sure, and I'd like to put in 25 to 50 just to make that hairline a little less perfect.  I suspect we'll do that at some point down the road and if so I'll update his case story.

In the meantime however, he has a lot of hair where before he had none.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdgzhYPblvU&feature=youtu.be

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Its ski season again, my buddy and I are both all covid vaccinated up and heading to Aspen.  I have room to see 4 more patients for in person hair discussions.  If you're interested, call the office and tell Wendy or me you want to see me in Colorado this thurs fri or sat Jan 28-30.  Wear a mask. 

As always, if you're a potential patient or previous patient....the ski challenge is on.  If you can ski a reasonably difficult black or double black slope better than me...and that gets easier for folks every year I get older...you get 1k off anything I offer surgically.  Last year's female only got 500 as it was a draw.  Judging by my buddy and niece, who are told to be impartial.

Dr. Lindsey 
McLean VA

In this short video Wendy and I discuss a fellow my age who's had plugs, strips, FUE's disquised at plugs and who has a bit of a sparse/pluggy hairline.  We repaired him 18 months ago and he popped in for a checkup.   Like a lot of fellows...he still has a bit of hair greed and may want to put a little more up front....

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LMPHz62Q60&feature=youtu.be

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

In this short video we discuss and interview a guy who has to have a very short haircut, and who had 2 failed fue cases elsewhere.  Here he is and gets a brief interview at 6 months and 2 weeks out from our case and looks awesome.

Interestingly, in the video Wendy and I briefly discuss this guys brother..same situation except he can have 1/2 in or 1cm long hair in the donor area..so we did a strip on him.  And he's 2 weeks behind this guy time wise but when they both came in on Thanksgiving day weekend the FUE was definitely growing better.  The strip will catch up and surpass the FUE but it really surprised me.  

Remember FUE stands for "f word" , Unreliable,  Extractions...its just less reliable than strip but in a guy like this who absolutely positively has to have a buzz cut, needs a limited amount of hair, and who has good hair to work with...FUE is indicated.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyWS2Q0caA&feature=youtu.be

Dr. Lindsey

In this short video we review the progress our west coast patient has made with around 45-4800 grafts.  He was kind enough to send me a 1 year preop pic and his current holiday pic to include.

The video is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n58x3WXaIeo&feature=youtu.be

Dr Lindsey 

McLean VA