Dr. William Lindsey

Here's a short video with an interview of a recent eyebrow transplant. As I uploaded the video...I see demo mode on the video...no idea what happened and the folks at our software vendor are slow to respond.... I'm sure a young IT person will know why its there but all that has happened was a power outage during editing.... Anyhow, the young lady looks good and did great cleaning. Take a look. Dr. Lindsey

In this video we review 2 class 6 guys. One is done...had two cases and a nice result. The other is at 6 months out from case 1. Both have very similar heads, hair texture, and likely will turn out similarly. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

We just took our medical doctor patient's sutures out. He did a really nice job cleaning and wanted to share advice both on cleaning and his previous work. All you seasoned forum members may find this boring, but I'd encourage newbies to view this and add it to the armamentarium of information they are gathering as they plan their hair options. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Ok guys, here's a 63 year old professional who essentially got scammed for 15 years by unscrupulous hair doctors. The only thing that actually worked for him was his first set of plugs back in the late 80s from a guy who did great plug work...wait...did I really say that????, and who quit before minigrafts and later strip took over. Unfortunately our patient then went to several different doctors along the east coast for a second set of plugs..supposedly cut into minis and micros...then he had 2 or maybe even 3 strip cases. Looks like all he got from that was a smaller bank account and a bunch of scar tissue on the back of his head. Anyhow, he shopped with us for 5 years before we did a 1600 or so strip case, excising a bunch of his plug scars, last summer. He rolled in a week a go and surprisingly...yes surprisingly at 6.5 months, already is growing. I think we'll get final pics next Christmas but watch this and you get the idea of his, and so many other guys' plight...and what can be done. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Ok guys, here's a short video on Steve, who is 5 months and 4 days out from our repair case. Now you seasoned veterans will know that only the beginning of growth is starting. BUT...take a look, you can see we have established a hairline and the forest of mid scalp coverage is there, it just has to grow. He had had SUPPOSEDLY 2500 grafts, which I doubt due to his result and due to his relatively low density donor region, by another practice a few years back. Like most guys who had a poor result someplace, he was really concerned he was going to get scammed again. Fortunately, he had a great attitude, did a good job cleaning, and had an easy case. Now its just waiting. In the video I interview him under poor office lighting, and he already looks better than his preop pics taken in the same light. Then he sprinkled on some fibers, maybe a little too much actually on the crown, but if you saw him in a store, you'd never know. THIS is how lots of guys can pull off a case without a lot of questions from co workers. He's local and I'm sure we'll get a followup in a year. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Its that time of year. I'll be at Big Sky Montana this weekend, never skied there before. If anyone wants to have a chat before I attempt Big Couloir on Monday, simply call my office 703 356 3260. And I'll be at Park City doing the usual ski with old patients and meet a few new ones March 8-13. Same deal... And if you are one of my old patients who wants to ski with me and a few others at Snowbird, I'll buy you lunch and a beer. Dr. Lindsey

Ok guys, listen to Steven...first off he has a mop of hair. Some courtesy of a few FUE cases by me, but mostly from his GENES! Here he is 77 months after I first operated on him and he's signed up for a little tweak of the hairline and partline in a month or so. He does however give excellent advice on hair loss and hair transplantation. Even seasoned veterans would be wise to hear his 2 cents on the life long progressive nature of hairloss. And that is despite meds and surgery. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

This younger fellow had a low yield strip case elsewhere. We repaired him and packed the hairline. He came in planning for more hair to the hairline fairly soon, but gosh...I don't see anyplace to put more hair, he's likely to lose significantly more hair due to his family genes, and he looks NORMAL. So hopefully we stopped his hair greed for now and he won't do something with me or anyone else for quite a while. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Take a look at this guy's hairline. First off he had a low yield strip case elsewhere that was a bit too low on his forehead...but once the hairline was put there, he and I just opted to pack it. He looks fantastic and of course...has a bit of hair greed thinking that just a couple more placed here or there would finish him off.... It might finish off his bank account but there is no place to put any more hair on his hairline right now. I told him to spend that money on another ski trip and roll back in in a few years. His video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Lots of you guys hear me preach about how FUE never works as well as strip. It doesn't. BUT, sometimes you are better suited to FUE....for example, you need 1/4 inch haircuts for your work. OR you are a terrible scarrer. There are a few others but those are the big 2 reasons that I'd accept FUE's lesser results than strip gives. Now this doctor has AWESOME thick curly middle eastern donor hair. Here he is at just about 4 years. And like everyone else...he wants to know if he needs more hair. The answer to that is not right now but maybe in the future. So take a look at the video, do your research, and make sure you understand the pros and cons of the various options available to you...not just get sold a procedure that fits your budget by a salesperson. The video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waFCfe0HH_I Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Our patient Jimmy was bald...and we did a medium sized case a while back. Medium due to his fairly limited donor density. Nevertheless, he grew in quite nicely and we did a second case 3 months ago, adding a few hundred singles to his left hairline and working back toward the crown. All of our recent work has shed and we're just waiting. He drove through the area for business and stopped by for this short video. I'm sure we'll see him for results next autumn. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

This guy popped in 9 years out from us repairing his strip scar. AND a few weeks after we did that we FUE'd his hairline to repair the work done elsewhere. He looks awesome and of course has a bit of hair greed. We'll end up doing a little FUE to bolster his density BELOW his scarline repair in a few weeks and then of course he'll decide he wants his hair line lowered...it always happens like that. BUT his hairline looks awesome and I'll talk him out of doing more work there at this point. Take a look at our scar repair and his 9 year FUE hairline. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Take a look at this guy. He came in with not a bad look...but he'd had a low density hair transplant locally. And indeed when we outline where he wants hair..you can see how sparse it was. We packed him with 1200 grafts and as usual, didn't hear from him til he walked in a few weeks ago. His hair is fantastic. Now, I get part of the credit but alot of the credit goes to this guy simply having perfect hair to work with. Its coarse, with a good color match, and he styles it perfectly. Its easy to get good results with that combo! The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Some of you guys may recall our scientist, who had 2 failed FUE attempts at eyebrow transplantation elsewhere. Now given her ethnic background...her donor hair roots are awesome..so my guess is they simply missed the angle and transplanted hairs without viable roots. We excised a tiny ellipse and got around 120 singles and placed them. I put up her early results back in the spring and she flew in at just over a year. She looks great. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Some of you guys may recall this guy's orginal post about 6 months ago. Essentially he had a couple thousand FUE case by a reputable doctor and had very little growth. Or maybe no growth. Inspecting his donor area showed no donor depletion and scars with hair coming out...probably indicating the transplantation of hairs with no viable roots. We see this each and every week here in DC. So we did a strip repair and he's just starting to grow. Pay attention to his 1.2mm scar, easily hidden by his military haircut and the fact that its actually working this time. The video is: Hopefully we'll get him in next summer for a video and maybe work back toward the crown. Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

In this extended interview with Alex, now a nurse, we delve into his initial journey to Mexico for a bad result low hairline, wide scar strip case that we repaired in 2012 with FUE. Listen to his journal of trying to find a bargain, getting repaired...and then spending years trying to laser off the low plugs put in and micro-needle the cobblestoning from those same plugs. What a journey. It had been several yaers since we saw Alex and he'd brought his mom in for a procedure and Wendy was able to get him to give us this patient perspective. Around 10 minutes in he reviews some of the high points in Spanish. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

This younger Indian fellow had autoextracted his temple hair and lost the front triangles. He rolled in at 2 years and looks great..did a nice 5 minute interview...then just as we were posting this, said his girlfriend didn't want him to be video'd....so we snipped it out but his pics are great. Take a look. Particularly his left temple was so natural I'd completely forgotten we did anything there...and typically that is a tougher area to get to look really natural due to the caliber and angle of the hairs. The video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20bT9NuPoW4 Dr. Lindsey

For years I've told people that for MOST well nourished male patients....to address hairloss you can 1. Do nothing 2. Wear a wig 3. Use meds (rogaine or propecia or avadart) 4. Do surgery. And for years I've seen hundreds of people a year crying over the money that they have wasted on all kinds of nonsense. In particular I've seen gobs of men and women who have paid medium or large amounts of money to clinics, doctors, spas...to buy laser treatments which have done nothing for the patient except waste time and lower their bank account. An article in this months Derm Surg gives a pretty soft call on if lasers help...concluding with the word MIGHT in the summary. Having published 29 articles in peer reviewed journals, by and large...if something shows promise, the researcher uses a variation of the phrase : encouraging and warrents further evaluation RATHER than might. So before you spend more money on things that might or might not work...do your research and see if it is worth your hard earned money. It may well be working for some folks...I've just not yet seen one come in the office with any results they attribute to a laser. And if the doctor is trying to sell it to you, maybe ask about studies like this. The video discussion is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

Some of you guys will recall Ed. He's our guy from out of state who had had (I keep forgetting this as he was really really bald and had had already 2 transplants by a national company before he got to me) previous work. We did a good case on him and 3 or 4 months out he got hit by an airplane landing at St Barts. We've done a few videos on him, one has ****pit video as he knew the pilot that hit him. Anyhow, I guess he's the first guy to get hit and live, although it degloved his scalp and removed a fair amount of his transplant. We did another 2 little cases on him and patched this up. He came in a few weeks ago and we did a likely final small case...all of these after our first case have been small as he is at least a class 7 AND he'd had 2 little cases before our medium sized case.So as I've posted in a bunch of videos...REALLY bald guys with limited hair either should do nothing surgically, OR they should frame the face and then work back but not spread things around. Roughly 50% of prospective patients that I show results like this to say its horrible...if one can't cover everything why do anything? And the other 50% love it. We do no "selling" and leave it completely up to the patient as these are really quite tough problems.HOPEFULLY Ed will spin by DC in a year or so and do a final video.His most recent case is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7p4NE5XAY And older videos are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpBPFPsmIW0&t=6s Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

In our latest ISHRS suggested video on black market hair restoration....we point out 3 common scams that could EASILY be prevented...if the patient would have just done a little research before handing over money to a sales consultant. With forums like this, and youtube...there really is no reason you can't see at least a handful of results by the doctor you are considering. If you don't see their work online...why? Is it because they don't post? Or they don't have results to post? Or they just bought a machine to do the surgery and they really haven't tried it out yet (we heard that one yesterday from a patient's mom....) So educate yourself and look at results and talk to a doctor, not a commissioned salesman...before you sign up. That is not a guarantee of success or happiness, but it is a great first few steps on the road. The video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7urg2y74xc Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

This guy is one of the tougher guys we've worked with. Not only is he a machine when it comes to tough guy stuff, but he's a pleasant fellow and he likes classic rock...so much in fact I lost a big bet to him during his first surgery. Results with short hair are really tests of the entire hair transplant team. The finer hair grafts can't be killed or damaged as there really is no "layering" buffer. AND the donor scar is a concern. Frankly he looks better in person and I'm a consistently inconsistent photographer...but he tells you his thoughts in the short interview. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

In our experience...virtually every single patient who had experiences like described in this video...who had their surgery in the US...the prospective patient rarely met the doctor who was going to do the surgery, never saw a result of a similar type of head that they had, and at best saw one or 2 professionally done advertisements...not patient interview videos or forum posts... While I have used this analogy and gotten grief from forum audiences before...I do think its valid. If you are buying a car...more than likely you look at several magazines and consumer oriented forums, and you actually go sit in the car and probably ask someone other than the salesman what kind of issues, good or bad, they've had with that car before you purchase. It's not hard, probably takes an hour or 2. Just do at least that amount of research before you let someone sell you a hair transplant! The video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6q04DIw3Xg Dr. Lindsey

Here's a young guy we talk with about 10 months out from his frontal case. Although not completely grown in, he looks great and will only improve over the next 3 months. He keeps a short haircut and we show his scar up close. The video is: Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

I've posted lots of younger guy's cases and a number of videos discussing how I think its key to avoid stupid decision making in hair restoration...especially younger guys who are "sold" a case that is not appropriate for them. Specifically, we encourage parents to come with the younger patients, always do a mature hairline...even if its not what all the young guy's young friends have...and we plan for future work down the road. Too many times a week I see a kid who has either a goofy low sparse hairline and is balding behind it and will never look natural, or a kid who really needed nothing yet...but had a surgery just to "prevent" balding.Do your research!This video is a 23 year old who is 6 months out. He looks to be growing at about the average pace...but it is still somewhat sparse. Guys recognize you will go through a period like this. And so that you can actually see what it looks like at 6 months with fine hair...watch our patient. Just this morning I saw a guy who was told by a doctor's salesperson...right in our area...that he'd be really growing well by his wedding in 5 months. I sadly said he should have started 7 months earlier but he should not do a case this close to his wedding. I suspect he's still going to proceed with the other doctor as they apparently sounded pretty convincing. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.The video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu6lE4BFOlg And he almost certainly will be in for a followup in 6 months.Dr. LindseyMcLean VA