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How many people have gotten a HT and a partial hair system?


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I had my first HT 7/07 and my second 8/08. I had almost 5000 grafts between the two concentrated on the front 2/3 of my scalp. I wanted the maximum density in the front so I decided not to address the crown. When the HT matures I will be wearing a lace hair piece on the crown. The guy who cuts my hair has several clients wearing one and says they blend perfectly and are undetectable. It should be a piece of cake for me since I've been wearing a hair piece from front to back.

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Dr. Epstein July 4, 2007

2520 grafts

471 one hair grafts

1540 two hair grafts

505 three hair grafts

5070 Total hair count

 

Dr. Epstein August 4, 2008

2384 grafts

870 one hair grafts

1150 two hair grafts

364 three and four hair grafts

4262 Total hair count

 

Dr. Ron Shapiro November 18, 2009

1896 grafts

760 one hair grafts

852 two hair grafts

288 three hair grafts

46 four hair grafts

3362 total hair count

 

Dr. Ron Shapiro July 1, 2011

1191 grafts

447 one hair grafts

580 two hair grafts

150 three hair grafts

14 four hair grafts

2113 total hair count

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This type of approach is reasonable for select patients. First, I have worked with several guys who were able to have a procedure, slightly modify the way they wore or styled their hair system, and "pull off" the surgery without their friends/customers knowing. Then in a few months they can modify the system again to show the transplant result, and consider moving forward with a second procedure much later.

 

Or second, and I posted a fellow on this site a few months ago like this, a person who has limited donor supply, such as a plug repair case, on whom we can really improve the front, but does not have sufficient resources to cover the top and crown. For a patient like this, a combination of surgery to give a natural hairline, and hair system to cover the top; works extremely well.

 

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

William H. Lindsey, MD, FACS

McLean, VA

 

Dr. William Lindsey is a member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

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