Hairline Design

[CuriousJungleGeorge]

Hi. This question is from interest, not from desire to research "my options": I've noticed certain surgeons design (with eye-liner) quite rounded hairlines, whereas others use a very jagged pattern; yet, often, the results from either yields perfectly natural results. So, is this simply because those who draw smooth lines don't actually transplant grafts in that pattern, or is something else going on?

 

Thanks.

[Thehairupthere]

Drawing the line and actually transplanting in a line are two different things, some surgeons just draw the line and use a staggered implanting method, some draw out the staggered line and follow that. The reason for the staggered line in transplantation is because hairlines are not straight or perfectly round, that is usually the first sign of a poor procedure. Hairlines are naturally uneven and this staggered implantation provides that look.

[MusoInOz]

I too have always noticed this when viewing pre-operative photographs, I guess given that one had a straight line drawn on it would be obvious once the final result does not present a perfectly straight hair line that the surgeon is just highly skilled to follow his own design on the fly.

 

 

Cheers,

[mattj]

As Thehairupthere said, the line will in most cases be the guideline for the general position of the hairline. During the actual placement of grafts (and the creation of the slits before that) the surgeon is free to work within the lines he/she has drawn and won't necessarily plants those follicles uniformly close to the boundary.

 

On a few occasions I've thought that surgeons have gone a bit too far in creating an irregular design, making the hairline overly jagged in such a way that the little peaks and troughs are sharply defined and visible from a distance. In a way the marked line represents the hairline when viewed from afar, while up close the finished result will display surgical mimicry of that natural irregularity for a hairline which doesn't draw the eye for the wrong reasons.