Raymond Konior, MD – Chicago Hair Institute – 1600 Graft Frontal Hairline Restoration

[Dr. Raymond Konior]

This 38 year old male requested hair transplantation. His primary objective was to define the frontal hairline and create a more balanced density match with the surrounding areas. A total of 1600 grafts were harvested using FUE (follicular unit extraction) and planted using a stick-and-place technique. The patient presented to the office for his follow-up exam with his hair styled using a mousse product to produce the spiked look he seems to favor. Presented here are 14 month postop results.

 

Edited November 28, 2015 by Raymond Konior, M.D.

[harryforreal]

I generally quite like your hairlines, Dr. Konior, and this looks very nice. I do wish, however, that you could provide "after" photos with dry hair as in the "before" photos.

 

Had this patient had a previous hair transplant, or was just thinning?

[Pete-from-Farjo]

Looks like his objectives were achieved. Very nice result.

[Dr. Raymond Konior]

harryforreal - The patient does not have wet hair. He presented to the office with a hair mousse product that produced the spiky look he apparently favors. The patient did provide a history of what he described as a low yield transplant several years earlier.

[PupDaddy]

I don't think people are appreciating just how good this is. Only 1,600 grafts in the frontal third, undetectable as a transplant, utterly natural hairline that provides excellent facial framing, and even with the patient having applied a heavy dose of mouse or gel to his hair, the transplanted area appears to match the density of the patient's surrounding native hair.

 

Beautiful work.

 

Dr. K: What tool(s) did you use for the extractions?

[chrisdav]

That is impressive for 1600 grafts over that surface area.

[JON86]

Very impressive result especially for the amount of grafts used.

[harryforreal]

Thank you, Dr. Konior, for clarifying. I see now that you did write he presented with mouse in his hair. I think it looks great and certainly is a great improvement over the previous transplant. But it would be nice to see it dry just to compare apples to apples. But otherwise it looks great and I'm sure the patient is very happy. Also glad to see an FUE example of your work.

 

[harryforreal]

Dr. Konior, I was just visiting your page and reading on your techniques. By stick and place you mean a pen? And do you feel that lateral slits produce better results then stick and place? Why do you only use stick and place when trying to fill in between hair grafts?

 

Thank you!

[home1212]

truly one of the best in this business, I so much appreciate viewing some of Dr. Konior's work, truly undetectable and perfect! If I ever decide to have any additional surgery, I'm calling on Dr. Konior

[PupDaddy]

Dr. Konior, I was just visiting your page and reading on your techniques. By stick and place you mean a pen? And do you feel that lateral slits produce better results then stick and place? Why do you only use stick and place when trying to fill in between hair grafts?

 

Thank you!

 

harry,

 

The page you mentioned on Dr. Konior's site explains that the stick-and-place technique means making a slit and then immediately filling that slit with a graft vs. pre-making lots of slits and then filling them with grafts. My understanding is that Dr. Konior uses custom cut blades to make recipient slits, whether he is doing the stick-and-place technique or is making pre-made slits. The difference, as I understand it, is that stick-and-place allows for using smaller blades to make smaller recipient slits because immediate placement of a graft into the slit prevents the slit/site from closing up. Smaller insult can be beneficial when transplanting amongst existing hair. Recipient slits can be oriented laterally with either technique.

 

Stick-and-place Technique  - Chicago, Gold Coast, Milwaukee, Oakbrook

 

That's how I understand it, anyway.

[esrec]

I don't think people are appreciating just how good this is. Only 1,600 grafts in the frontal third, undetectable as a transplant, utterly natural hairline that provides excellent facial framing, and even with the patient having applied a heavy dose of mouse or gel to his hair, the transplanted area appears to match the density of the patient's surrounding native hair.

 

Beautiful work.

 

Dr. K: What tool(s) did you use for the extractions?

 

Exactly! The only thing I'd challenge is the patient's choice of hair gel Near perfection by Konior as always. That's remarkable work for 1600 grafts.

Edited November 28, 2015 by esrec

[leftygolfer71]

Awesome!

[matt3480]

Awesome work....

 

Harryforreal....gel normally clumps your hair together and shows more scalp than normal. I can imagine the patient's hair looks even better dry.

[Windjammer]

Excellent result. As others have said, it blends in seamlessly with the patient's native hair. Would also be great to see pictures of the donor, especially given that the case is FUE.

[Sean]

Excellent result. As others have said, it blends in seamlessly with the patient's native hair. Would also be great to see pictures of the donor, especially given that the case is FUE.

 

Windjammer, it imperative that a doc is able to blend the transplanted hairs with native hairs.

 

This is a key trait to skill to research.

[Mickey85]

Very natural looking. Dry before and wet/styled after(patient's choice) is also impressive, certain other clinics need to take note.

[ontop]

i really enjoy to see Dr K work.

his hairline work is second to none and for only 1600 grafts its truly a good result.

 

i for one can look behond the hair gell but this pt favour curly hair and this defo helps IMO

 

never the less great job Dr K as norm we see from you.