Female Hair loss with Dr. Edmond I. Griffin

[Jeff Hamm]

Female pattern baldness typically affects the frontal and mid scalp. The hair can look limp and lifeless, without any real form or body due to the effects of miniaturization from DHT. This requires a different surgical approach for hair restoration. Single hairs are not as critical, since there is not a hairline restoration needed. Naturally growing single hairs are left intact, and combined with an adjacent naturally occurring follicular unit to form a combined graft or multiple unit graft. This type of distribution helps provide more volume though increased individual hair counts, but may yield fewer total grafts. This patient had a strip harvest resulting in 2,150 total follicular and multiple unit grafts. For a count of 3,319 individual hair follicles. The images show before and one year after surgery, and an immediate photo taken at the conclusion of the procedure which displays graft distribution. Hair loss prevention is recommended to each patient seen for hair loss concerns. Note the increase in the amount of body in the concerned areas after the transplant. A second session could improve overall density, but a good improvement with one session nonetheless.