Michael Vories, MD FUE 3522 grafts

[Michael Vories, MD]

38 year old male presented to our clinic 7 months ago with primary concern of vertex hair loss. On examination his frontal forelock also had significant loss, but his primary concern was his vertex (crown). We grafted approximately 3500 grafts, 2000 to the vertex, and the remaining 1500 to the frontal forelock. The patient is stable on finasteride, 2.5 mg every other day. During his 7 month follow up, the patient was very pleased with his vertex coverage, and now is considering further grafting into his hairline for increased coverage. 0.85 mm Vortex punch used for extraction due to very good hair caliber, and Hans Hair Implanters used for placement. All grafts harvested and placed by the physician.

[Blake Bloxham]

Dr Vories,

 

Nice work! Also, can you share some information about your finasteride prescribing practices? It seems like a lot of your patients start on finasteride/Propecia after surgery? Do you routinely prescribe the medication post-op? It looks like a lot of your patients are good finasteride responders. We hear a lot about the dreaded sexual side effects from the drug on the forums as well. Do you ever get patients complaining of these after starting the meds post-op?

 

Thanks!

[Michael Vories, MD]

We believe that for many patients the use of finasteride can turn a good result into a great result. For this reason, as long as there is the potential to save existing hair, or even improve the caliber of existing hair, we encourage patients to begin finasteride post-op. Sexual side effects are real but uncommon. For most of our patients, if they have these side effects they occur within the first few weeks of treatment. So we counsel them to begin a trial dose to see if they experience any changes. If they get through the first few weeks with no side effects, then they are usually ok.

[irishsailor]

Nice work.