Opinions on Scar repair

[scarredbaldy]

Td06, I believe it is a Tricho Closure.

 

MrGio-WHTCClinic. after the first procedure my scalp felt very tight and the back of my head was numb for almost 6 month. Infact, even when the sutures were removed , I could see the scar was going to be wide and could identify a big problem area. I dont think it stretched much more after that.

 

This time around , after the revision, the back of my head didn't feel any tightness or numbness whatsoever. Since day 1 the scar looks much better.

 

I will be posting picture at around month 2 but I would say right now it is pencil thin all the way to the right side of my head, at which point, there might have been a bit of stretch or it might just be shock loss, but it's still looking much much better than it did than after the first procedure.

[Td06]

Td06, I believe it is a Tricho Closure.

 

MrGio-WHTCClinic. after the first procedure my scalp felt very tight and the back of my head was numb for almost 6 month. Infact, even when the sutures were removed , I could see the scar was going to be wide and could identify a big problem area. I dont think it stretched much more after that.

 

This time around , after the revision, the back of my head didn't feel any tightness or numbness whatsoever. Since day 1 the scar looks much better.

 

I will be posting picture at around month 2 but I would say right now it is pencil thin all the way to the right side of my head, at which point, there might have been a bit of stretch or it might just be shock loss, but it's still looking much much better than it did than after the first procedure.

 

Scarredbaldy,

 

If you don't mind me asking did you notice any shock loss in the donor area around the scar from your first procedure post-op?

 

Thanks for the update.

[scarredbaldy]

Td06, I would say yes. Nothing dramatic but there was some...

[rev333]

Td06, I would say yes. Nothing dramatic but there was some...

 

Congrats!

 

That was a HUGE decision to make. Like you, a friend knew his scar was too wide as soon as the stitches were removed.

 

This one looks like it worked.

 

It looks fantastic!

[scarredbaldy]

rev333, only time will tell. it is still very early. as I am not evern at the 2 month mark I would estimate the scar its about 1 mm in width all through the left side and onto the middle of my head at which point the. width gradually reaches 4-5 mm with one small area reaching as high as 8-10 mm. Regardless, the tricho seems to cover every thing very well. I believe once the redness is gone , I 'll be able to do guard 3. Sure would've been nice if it was 1mm all the way through, but I'll take it.

[scarredbaldy]

Well here it is. Pictures at almost 2months. I've shaved my whole head at about 2.5cm in length to get a better feel of what it looks like.

 

Looking at the pictures, I'm not so confident anymore about the guard 3 (1cm), but it's still looking much better than the original scar did at this time frame. The measurements are still the same as in my previous post. That would be 1mm in width on the left side of my head, stretch to 5mm as it travels along to the right , with one small spot stretching down to 1cm width for about 5mm length and then returning back to to a 5mm width.

 

Hopefully, there is some shock loss in there and things will get better.

At worst, I probably saved myself a lot of grafts for a fue revision next year, which makes this whole ordeal worth it, I would think. Whatever that means.

 

Good thing we all have baldness, surgeries and scarring to keep our minds occupied.

Now if it were only a less expensive hobby...

 

Well , any opinions on the matter would be appreciated.

 

The plan right now is to wait it out, get FUE if needed and enhance with SMP if that fails.

 

I'm figuring that if I ever get to the state where I do need those extra 300 or so grafts that I plan to waste on this scar, well, I'm probably better off just keeping my hair short all together. In which case, they serve me better camouflaging my smiley friend...

[scarredbaldy]

Well... it's been 5 months now, and I think I have a pretty good feel in regard the final scar dimensions.

 

I would say the new scar is an improvement over the old one but not by much.

 

The consensus on this forum, as well as my doctors opinion at the time, is that it all comes down to patient physiology, and that a new scar is likely to stretch out as much as the original.

My experience seems to confirm that as well.

 

For anyone looking for a scar repair, if their original hair transplant specialist is known to have great success rates, as mine was and is, I would recommend against scar excision and jump straight to FUE.

 

Ultimately, I believe that the hair follicles that were lost inside the original tricho-closure balance out any gains made by the smaller scar.

 

I have currently booked an FUE repair session for later this year.

 

Hopefully my only problem after that will be figuring out a way to change my username on this forum from scarredbaldy to slightlybaldy.

 

While at the clinic, I had the chance to meet another patient with FUE. Seeing his results and having him describe to me his experience, if I could go back, I would do FUE from the start. I'm sure there are a lot of great healers out there, but ultimately not worth risk.

 

Sometimes impatience gets the best of us, but in the long term, in my opinion, you're better off planning smaller FUE sessions, than a FUT mega-session.