Dr. Mwamba 2,589 grafts - FIT - patient results

[HairFairy]

This 50 year old patient came to us with a goal of reconstructing the frontal hair line with a dense packing approach. He had not had previous HT surgery. The approach taken was the FIT (Follicular Isolation Technique) – shaven method. In this method the complete donor and recipient areas are shaved. The FIT method leaves no visible scarring to the naked eye.

 

Acell was also used to promote the healing process in the donor area and good growth in the recipient area.

 

Donor density: 70FU/CM2

Total grafts: 2,589

[haircut]

What was the breakdown of the 2,589 grafts? (singles, doubles. etc.)

[HairFairy]

I do not have that breakdown...I will see if I can get it for you

[TomCruise]

That graft placement looks well done.

[HairFairy]

Thank you....Dr. Mwamba is meticulous in his work

[HairFairy]

In response to 'Haircut's question regarding the count breakdown, Dr. Mwamba states the following:

With our FIT, we have low transection rate, so this helps us to approach as close as possible to the final number of hairs displaced or volume hairs. When we extract the grafts, we don't leave them out of the body for a long period of time. We insert them into the recipient sites right after. So we don't have time to count each graft in terms of numbers of hairs per graft. We do that in some cases for research purposes. And we perform our extractions (patient in seated position) in order to synchronize our extraction and placing process which occurs simultaneously. None the less, this is a very popular question in this industry - the graft breakdown in terms of quantity of singles, doubles etc. To answer this question, we will tell you what our standard process generally is but again - each case is different and it may vary slightly depending on the situation. Usually for hair line work, Dr. Mwamba uses singles and doubles in the following proportions: 1/2 singles vs 1/2 doubles (2 to 3 rows of singles followed by 2 to 3 rows of doubles). This is most of the time for patients with thin, blonde or light brown hair. For patients with coarse, dark hair, the proportion is 2/3 singles vs 1/3 doubles (3 rows of singles and 2 rows of doubles). Dr. Mwamba usually grafts at 50 to 65 FU/cm2. Most of the hair line is 7 to 9 cm2 (14 to 18 cm long over 0.5 cm wide). Therefore, the graft counts vary from 350 grafts to 600 grafts (average being 450 to 500 grafts in most cases). The rest of the grafts are full size grafts. We average our grafts and hair counts by providing the CD (or calculated density = number of hairs per grafts).