Dr. Lindsey 5 month check on 3000 graft case with fine hair, and very short hair in d

[Dr. William Lindsey]

This nice fellow wears a short hair cut and has a pretty high forehead. He has fine hairs and although he still has some coverage up front, they are all miniaturized hairs and have been vanishing year by year. We had a long talk about scar issues and although FUE might be a reasonable choice, with his fine donor hair I think his results could be pretty variable. He agreed to have a longer hair length if the scar dictated it, which fortunately it has not as is shown on his 6 month pictures.

He looks quite good and ought to look fantastic at 12 months when he stops by again.

Shown are periop, day 7, day 30, and approximately 5 month postop pictures.

I asked him to post his case so he could describe the event as he is pretty conversive, but it appears that he’d rather comment on my post than do it himself. So hopefully he’ll chime in.

 

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

[Since21]

Looking quite bushy at 5 months.

[wylie]

That's a great result, and he must be really happy with it. Am not sure if the blurry picture (#3) is a pre-op side view picture or not, but the 5 month picture shows a great yield already

[MrGio-WHTCClinic]

This is a substantial change at five months. Was the previous donor scar excised as the latest strip procedure was performed?

[Blake Bloxham]

Wow! Amazing scar. Great work.

[Dr. William Lindsey]

Thanks for the comments.

 

Wylie... I'm a consistently inconsistent photographer documented by readers of this forum now for 7 years.. but I agree he's growing faster than expected at 5 months. But for every fast grower there is a slow one out there frustrated.... I'm happy this guy is growing quickly though.

 

Mr. Gio this was a virgin head, no previous scar.

 

Blake, thanks but you know as well as I do that at least half the credit for his good scar is his physiology. I close every head essentially the same way and as I've posted many times, every year I get 4 bad scars that I'd grade a C or D, 110 really good scars that I'd grade a B or B+ or A - and 8 scars that are virtually imperceptible. My trouble is that I just can't predict who will be in which category!

 

And given that for all first time cases I do exactly the same width strip (1.7cm((not too wide even on stretchy scalps))) and the same 2 layer trichophytic closure....I personally believe that almost always the variability from the mean is patient physiology rather than surgical technique. While that may seem like I'm only blaming the bad scars on the patient, as noted above I give the great scars a lot of patient credit as well.

 

I'm looking forward to his 1 year result.

 

Thanks

 

Dr. Lindsey