1 year check on 2600 up front by Dr. Lindsey McLean VA in a Korean male

[Dr. William Lindsey]

This fellow had 2600 grafts last Christmas season to address his frontal 1/3. He has a good skin-hair color match but like many Asians, he has very thin hairs….requiring more hair per centimeter and even then, less coverage than say a thick haired middle easterner.

Shown are preop and intraop pics, 1 month scar check pics, 7.5 month and 1 year pictures. He’s has grown well and his scar is tough to find. He was a pleasure to work with and I expect the hairline, while conservative, to hold up for the long haul.

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

[hdude46]

These pics are too small to see anything, they need to be taken further away so we can say the whole face.

[Spanker]

Looks very thin. He could prolly benefit from another procedure. I like the area covered and shape of the hairline, but when pulled back there is a stark contrast of transplanted and not transplanted hair.

[Blake Bloxham]

Dr. Lindsey,

 

Thank you for sharing this case with the community. Does this patient have any future hair restoration plans (possibly a second procedure to augment the already impressive transformation)? Nicely done.

[Dr. William Lindsey]

He is an interesting guy. The week before Christmas 2010, we did 3 koreans, one thick hair, one medium, and one thin haired. This is the thin haired fellow. So I don't disagree that it looks thin, he simply has very thin hair everywhere.

 

Initially his goal was the case we did, followed by eyebrow repair with a hair transplant...which I was able to talk him out of as those thin hairs you see that he can donate, would not match his eyebrows at all. Plus, I personally haven't seen an eyebrow repair case that looks natural on a man.

 

He'd just had a change in his marital status and I believe meds didn't agree with him. Surprisingly, he did come see me in the summer and had his nose done--a relatively conservative tip projection and augmentation rhinoplasty.

 

He did very well from that and when he stopped by recently, he was a different guy. He said he was happy with his surgeries and would stay in touch regarding his hair, but for now, he had a girlfriend, a new job and a completely different attitude from when he and I first met.

 

Now I don't think my surgery changed his life. But I do think he was able to change a troubling aspect of his life and move on, and part of his casting aside of the old, was addressing appearance issues that bothered him.

 

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA