Hi all,
As planned, I had my HT done with Dr. Shapiro on 1/15/2007. It was a wonderful experience and I must say Janna, Dr. Shapiro and Matt did a great job at answering all my questions and accomodating my desires in regards to graft count. Following are further details on graft count/hairs. Also, I am attaching 2 links below with my pics so please feel free to comment. For some reason I couldn't get to upload the pictures on this site.
One thing to note. I had several native hairs which were shaved down before surgery in order have an open field to plant the new grafts.
Strip: 7.5 cm long x 1.5 cm wide
& 15.5 cm long x 1.75 cm wide
Total graft/hair count: 3225gr/7222 hairs
1's ??“ 639 = 639 hairs
2's ??“ 1458 = 2916 hairs
3's ??“ 845 = 2535 hairs
4's ??“ 283 = 1132 hairs
You had inner sutures (dissolvable sutures) along with nylon sutures on the outside, which must be removed with in two weeks.
Trichophyic closure was also done.
Pictures are available here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sadhairloss/PreOpsAnd1DayPostOp
http://picasaweb.google.com/sadhairloss/Day2
3)http://picasaweb.google.com/sadhairloss/Day6
Thanks,