Dr. Pawlinga applying for "Recommended" status

[Suzanne J]

Dr. Chris Pawlinga, who has been practicing hair transplant surgery at our clinic with Dr. Beehner the past five years, is requesting to be considered for "recommended" status on the HTN. Prior to his joining our practice, he completed a full year ISHRS Fellowship under Dr. Beehner's direction.

The managing editor of this website encouraged us to submit some photos of Dr. Pawlinga at work and our staff at work as well. They are attached.

Dr. Beehner took those photos the other day when Dr. Pawlinga was operating on a light haired brownish-blond man (a couple of photos from that operation, including the graft photos and those of the staff cutting are of this patient). When we got the additional list, which included details about a patient case, we found recent photos from such a case Dr. Pawlinga did and are including them here.

The patient with the plan drawn on his head and with the close-up photos is a 27 year old man, whose goal was to fill out the front area where he felt it was too thin. Dr. Pawlinga planted 1325 FU grafts (199 x 1-hair FU's; 662 x 2-hair FU's; 464 x 3-hair FU's) all in the frontal region behind the hairline as drawn. The "after" photos were taken the next morning, when he came in for a hair wash. The 1-hair hairline sites were made with a 20g needle. The rest were made with a 1.0mm lateral slit blade and with an 18g needle for the 3-hair grafts. The patient received a supra-orbital block initially and was moderately sedated with subcutaneous Versed and intramuscular Demerol.

Some notes on the photos enclosed:

Photo of Dr. Pawliga and one with staff

Tina cutting FU grafts under 10x microscope using backlighting

Sutured donor area (was cut with single #10 blade)

Dr Pawlinga making hairline slits with blade

1,2,3, & 4-hair FU grafts from this patient

Grafts being placed by staff and Dr. Pawlinga

Staff cutting grafts (2 other microscopes in room also at different sites)

 

 

Sincerely,

Suzanne Jacques

Office Manager

Saratoga Hair Transplant Center

Edited November 5, 2010 by Suzanne J

[Suzanne J]

Attached here are a few other photos which somehow got cut out when posting the above note.

Suzanne

[Bill - Seemiller]

Suzanne,

 

It was a pleasure meeting you and Dr. Pawlinga and seeing Dr. Beehner again at this year's annual 2010 ISHRS conference in Boston. I also appreciate you taking the time to present photos showing Dr. Pawlinga's surgery in addition to the several examples of his quality results over the last year. Dr. Pawlinga does truly seem to emulate Dr. Beehner's quality work. Now that we've seem several examples of his work, I look forward to speaking with him in more detail about his experience, technique and hair transplant philosophy sometime next week in considering him for potential recommendation.

 

Best wishes,

 

Bill

[TakingThePlunge]

Suzanne,

 

Thank you for sharing these examples of Dr. Pawlinga's work. I agree that it looks top notch and I look forward to seeing more of his patients presented here.

 

All the best,