Frontal Restoration with Dr. Edmond I. Griffin

[Jeff Hamm]

I have worked in hair restoration with Dr. Griffin since 1989. I have seen a lot of changes in the field over that span of time. Together we visited many doctors around the world that Dr. Griffin felt had an interesting or innovative technique that could be useful in our hair transplant surgery. Dr. Limmer in Texas, Dr. Dow Stough in Arkansas, Dr. Walter Unger in Toronto, Dr. Marcelo Pitchon in Brazil, Dr. Hitzig in NY, and Dr. John Cole here in Atlanta. These are but a few of the amazing physicians we have had the honor and pleasure of an invite to observe various hair procedures. It seems the current trend in hair restoration is mega and giga graft sessions. Whether it be done by strip or FUE, the number of grafts per surgery have skyrocketed since I started working in hair 25+ years ago. In my opinion the high graft numbers may suggest to some, that unless you have a gigantic session, you may not have a good result from a HT surgery. We perform these sessions sizes in our office using both strip harvest and FUE. Certainly, some patients need high graft counts, but not everyone needs mega or giga sessions for an improvement. This patient had a meager 1,276 grafts, 2,431 follicles in 1 surgery, with photos taken before, on the day of the procedure and 1 year later, including the scar from the strip harvest. Would a 3000+ graft session look 3 times better or thicker? Notice the overall improvement in hair volume from the frontal views. Does the hair line look natural? Compare this case with similar cases.