James A. Harris, MD, FACS

Thank you...he is 66 years old.

FUT 1334 grafts

I don't have intra-op photos but his history is that he had a previous surgery where the hairline was placed too low and grafts blunted the fronto-temporal angles. I used FUE to reshape the frontal hairline and temporal recessions. He will need additional grafts removed but he has chosen to shave the remaining hairs that were too low on his forehead.

FUT 2672 grafts

FUT 2146 grafts

The red area is a birthmark. The number of grafts is in error, it should have been 1628 strip harvest grafts.

FUT 1807 grafts

Thank you for your "kind" and unbiased comments. I have no control how a patient cuts his hair prior to surgery or how he wears it when he comes in for a post-op visit. Of course, since you are not a hair restoration professional it would be hard to see and appreciate that with only 2300 grafts that the hairline, frontal and mid-scalp density have changed and it's now more uniform. He now feels comfortable wearing his longer and he's not only happy with the results, he's thrilled (since you asked). As a matter of education, men with hair loss can't always just "grow their hair longer" as the balding process involves shortened anagen phases which can preclude this option. "It's an insult that surgeons still pedal this and patients elect for it"...it's an insult that anyone with fingers and a computer can express their expert "97 posts" opinions about things they know very little about and completely ignore the desires of the actual patient. I suggest that you get a life.

This 41 year old patient chose to have James A. Harris, MD perform his hair transplant using the ARTAS. Patient had 2300 grafts with excellent results. Patient is completely satisfied.

This 27 year old male patient received 3318 Individual Follicular Unit/FUE using the S.A.F.E System by James A. Harris, M.D. The patient is completely ecstatic with his results.

This 45 year old male had 2000 grafts hair transplanted with James A. Harris, MD using the ARTAS. Excellent outcome

Patient received 2429 grafts with James A. Harris, M.D. using the ARTAS Terrific outcome! Patient extremely pleased.

Patient is 33 years of age. Patient received 1160 FUE grafts by James A. Harris, M.D. Dr. Harris' SAFE System was used to harvest the grafts. Great outcome!

Patient is a 35 year old male that underwent the NO SHAVE IFT (individual follicular trim) for an FUE with Dr. James Harris Hand Held SAFE SYSTEM. Patient received 1234 graft in the frontal hairline, recessions and forelock. Excellent outcome!

Patient is 43 year old male. Patient chose to have the IFT (Individual Follicular Trim) FUE in order to hide the donor/harvested area. James A. Harris, MD performed a FUE using his SAFE System FUE tool. Patient received 1240 grafts. Patient is extremely pleased with the outcome.

39 year old male chose James A. Harris, MD to perform an ARTAS procedure for his hair transplantation. Excellent outcome. Patient received 2429 grafts

On item 4: I have been practicing hair restoration for 19 1/2 years. The 1/2 was translated as a question mark. JH

I would like to thank you all for your attempts to help and support my patient but unfortunately, I don’t believe that the information you are providing is quite accurate. Because of the multiple posts, I’m going to enumerate my comments. They are not intended to address all of the members’ posts, but convey general impressions. 1. Thank you to the members that have encouraged baldlivesmatter to contact me. What many on this forum fail to recognize is that the doctor is not the enemy, we are in this profession to help the patients that we treat. I have gone through my E-mails and have not been able to find a single letter of concern from this patient. The first step when a patient is concerned about any aspect is to ask their physician, and I would say that if they are a member of HTN I hope that they will respond with concern and professionalism. 2. The members stating that 7 months is long enough to wait for full growth obviously have not had enough experience or exposure to hair restoration to render an accurate opinion. The regrowth of the individual grafts is a bell curve and the often the visible bulk growing around the 6-7 months in most patients. The overall growth by individual patients is also represented by a bell curve, with a modest number growing fully by 4-5 months and others fully at 9-12 months and most other patients in the middle somewhere. There is absolutely no evidence to support the contention that all patients with “quality” hair restoration will be fully grown at 7 months. 3. There seems to be an underlying assumption that I will not take care of baldlivesmatter should this be a case of poor growth. I’m not sure why there seems to be this antagonism between members and the physicians. My reputation, and the reputation of most doctors, is based on the fact that we are ethical and truly care about our patients and their results. I can tell you that if baldlivesmatter does not receive the growth that he or I expect I will work with him to achieve an outcome that he will be find acceptable. 4. After 19 ? years of practicing hair restoration and approximately 7000 cases I can tell you for certain that there are cases of poor and delayed growth experienced by every single physician practicing hair restoration. If a doctor or their representative claim that they have never had a case then they are lying. I know this because I have sent some of my patients with poor growth to other physicians and I see a good number of patients who have had poor growth from physicians are touted in these forums. 5. The patient stories and experiences recounted in these forums are very biased, meaning it is not a true representation of the actual population of hair restoration patients. What tends to be reported is the very best outcomes (full growth at 4-5 months), the worst outcomes (too many too mention). When a patient like baldlivesmatter reports his progress, he is automatically placed into one of those two categories, ignoring the fact that he may be in the category of one of the average, like the tens of thousands of patients that do not concern themselves with posting their experiences. Thank you to those with the voice of reason encouraging baldlivesmatter to wait 10-12 months before making a final decision about the outcome. The rest of you that are encouraging panic and despair are not really being helpful. Baldlivesmatter, there is no reason for me to believe that you will have anything other than a great result, and I have two things to say. If you don’t have a great result I will make things right for you whatever is required. The second is that if you do get great results, then you should take a stance on this forum as a voice of calm reassurance for the average patient. Sincerely, James A. Harris, MD, FISHRS

This 25 year old man chose to have the FUE using the IFT (individual follicular trim) method with the Harris FUE System. Dr. James Harris obtained 1425 grafts to make this young man extremely happy with his "new" hair back.

32 Year old male underwent an FUT with James A. Harris, MD. Patient received 1500 grafts with perfect results.

48 year old Male Patient had Individual Follicular Trim (IFT) FUE using the Harris Safe System. Patient received 1792 grafts with an outstanding outcome.

Patient had 3701 FUE grafts done with James A. Harris, MD using the SAFE System. Excellent outcome. Patient very happy to have more hair.

This 30 year old male had his first hair transplant performed James A. Harris, MD using the ARTAS. He received 1044 grafts. Terrific outcome.

ARTAS FUE Harvest: Patient: Male 30 years old Numbers of Grafts: 1622 Physician: James A. Harris, M.D. Patient very pleased with the outcome