Dr. Paul Shapiro/1Yr Result 2164 Grafts-4395 Hairs

[Janna]

Hi,

SMG is presenting a patient (age 39) who had a procedure of 2164 grafts/4395 hairs one year ago. He is extremely happy with the results. You'll notice the before and after pictures are with patient's hair slightly wet. As of now, patient feels his ht goals have been met.

 

Graft/Hair Count: 1's-548, 2's-1061, 3's-495, 4's-60 =2164/4395

Surgery Date: 8/5/09 - Strip width & length: 1.5cm x 13.5

Edited August 27, 2010 by Janna

[aaron1234]

Wow Janna, I bet this patient is extremely happy. He got an extremely good result. Nice work again Dr. Paul. Some HT hairlines I can detect.... not this one!

[haircut]

That is pretty amazing!

[Surfarosa]

One of the best hairlines I have seen ! Great candidate though - most with his starting point would likely not take the risk of a HT.

[aWidowsPeek]

Hey Janna what density does Paul usualy do a hairline at?

 

Is their a diference if it's Fue or Strip?

[RCWest]

Jaw dropping results! Dr. Shapiro is a true master of hairlines.

[aWidowsPeek]

Hey Janna what density does Paul usualy do a hairline at when doing FUE?

[Mick from Farjo]

Janna,

 

The House of Shapiro continue to deliver, excellent.

 

Mick

[balody]

Nice work Janna,but to be honest did he need it yet?At 39 he could still be in for further loss,is he on meds?

As i said the work looks impeccable but i think the weight loss alone has made huge difference to his appearance.

I'm not knocking it but i do worry about guys who have a thick head of hair with a little recession and opt for surgry relatively early on in life.

[Dr. Paul Shapiro]

Hi

Janna is out of town for the week.

To answer your questions about density and FUE.

The outcome should be the same whether we use FUE or Strip. The difference is in the way the grafts are harvested. But the way we plant the hair is the same. In general we limit our FUE cases to around 2,000 to 2,500 hairs and that will take 3 days. If a patient needs a larger case then we need to use strip.

As for the question of density. I planted the hairline at a density of 60FU/sq.cm. I would call that dense packing and I only do that in patients who are good candidates for dense packing.

He is a 38 year old male who has hair loss in the Norwood type II pattern. Most of the males in his family do not progress to more than a Norwood type IV but he does have an uncle who has Norwood type V hair loss. His donor density was good and he had very minimal crown loss. He also had no miniaturization in his central core area and top of his crown. If he was younger,(in his 20's)or had more extensive hair loss then I would have used lesser densities of 40-50 FU/sq.cm in the hairline.

Dr. Paul

[Mercury]

Great results!! I agree with Aaron and Surfarosa that the hairline is fantastic.

 

Nice Job Dr. Shapiro. Keep up good work.

 

[aWidowsPeek]

Thanks Dr. Paul!