FUE Donor Scar Repair; Dr. Beehner

[Dr. Michael Beehner]

This then 39 y/o male presented to our clinic in 2002, having had two previous large transplant sessions at another clinic and noted at that time to us that he thought his scar was wider than he liked.

He then proceeded to have three transplant sessions with us to finish up and give him the density he desired on top, and we were able to each time excise a small amount of the donor strip width along with harvesting a strip of hair for a total of 3500 new grafts we gave him (80% FU's and 20% DFU's).

At that point, he wanted us to do what we could to eliminate or lessen as much as possible the visible impact of the scar, especially on the right corner area.

In 2004 we then proceeded to excise around 5-6mm of the widest part of the scar, but it returned to being almost as wide as before due to the elasticity of his scalp. We then over the next few years did three FUE sessions into the scar with 912 FUE grafts (mostly 1 and 2-hair FU's) obtained from 0.9mm FUE sites using the manual SAFE method of Dr. James Harris.

He dropped in the other day for the first time in two years to let us see the result and noted that he had the barber cut his hair unusually short this time. You will notice he has a broad swath of white hair along his temple area and across the bottom of his scalp. He was quite pleased with the final results. The second photo shows the wide scar area before our treatment of it. The photo on either side of that photo is a close-up of his final result with FUE's. The two more distant views were taken the same day. Note that he had the barber cut his hair very short just prior to the visit.

Mike Beehner, M.D.

Edited September 12, 2011 by Mike Beehner, M.D.

[galtsglutch]

Excellent result.

 

Thank you for posting this Dr. Beehner. I'm really glad to see the outcome of FUE into donor scars because it is a topic that I hear about quite often, yet rarely seen the final outcome of.

[corvettester]

Exactly!

 

I want to see more of these types of cases presented. This one of the most talked about, yet least documented subjects on the HTN. I'm going to have to bookmark this case.

 

Thank you Dr. Beehener. Outstanding result... almost makes the linear scar a complete non-issue.

 

 

Corvettester

[aaron1234]

That was a rough scar. Glad to see the FUE grew through the scar tissue. Well done Dr. Beehner. Thanks for posting. Like the others said we definitely need more of these B&A's.

[orlhair1]

Looks great. Huge improvement.