What would have went wrong for this patient?

[jagdish]

Hi,

Please check the picture. Someone I know went to a local hair transplant clinic for the surgery in Hyderabad, India. A week ago, surgery was performed on him and It was 3000 grafts. As per him his face was completely swollen after the surgery and subsided in a couple of days, but this is what was left on his face now. When he contacted the doctor, she said that it's his mistake that he might have done excessive scratching. But he told me that he did not do such a thing. I would like to know what would have happened in this case. Is it a reaction due to excess Anastasia or something else? The doctor is a dentist (Master’s of Dental Surgery)

[Britanium]

I would seek medical advice ASAP ! This needs to be checked by a health professional. 
@DrTBarghouthi @Dr. Suhail Khokhar 

[jagdish]

3 minutes ago, JohnAC71 said:

I would seek medical advice ASAP ! This needs to be checked by a health professional. 
@DrTBarghouthi @Dr. Suhail Khokhar 

Due to Covid situation, he got stuck and he can only reach out to a Doctor on Monday. Meanwhile, I wanted to quick check if it's extremely serious.

[Britanium]

@Melvin-Moderatorcan perhaps chime in also. I have never seen anything like it. 

[DrTBarghouthi]

This looks rather unusual. Looks to me like hypertrophic scarring or some skin reaction  of some sort. It is quite unusual. Did they use any unusual meds or does he have some allergy to anesthesia?

[ciaus]

2 hours ago, jagdish said:

Hi,

Please check the picture. Someone I know went to a local hair transplant clinic for the surgery in Hyderabad, India. A week ago, surgery was performed on him and It was 3000 grafts. As per him his face was completely swollen after the surgery and subsided in a couple of days, but this is what was left on his face now. When he contacted the doctor, she said that it's his mistake that he might have done excessive scratching. But he told me that he did not do such a thing. I would like to know what would have happened in this case. Is it a reaction due to excess Anastasia or something else? The doctor is a dentist (Master’s of Dental Surgery)

 

You say in your post that the doctor is a dentist. Do you mean the hair transplant was performed by a dentist?

[Westview]

I'm not a doctor but it looks like a giant bloodclot or maybe a hematoma??

Also, I'm 99% certain that is not 3,000 grafts.  Like not even close

[jagdish]

10 minutes ago, DrTBarghouthi said:

This looks rather unusual. Looks to me like hypertrophic scarring or some skin reaction  of some sort. It is quite unusual. Did they use any unusual meds or does he have some allergy to anesthesia?

@DrTBarghouthi  Thank you for the response. 

The clinic's website has no earlier HT results posted and it looks like the doctor is just starting up on Hair Transplant surgeries. It looks more like the doctor's mistake than the patient's unusual reaction. I will follow up with the patient on how he is making progress on this. Thank you again for sharing your opinion on this.

[jagdish]

8 minutes ago, ciaus said:

 

You say in your post that the doctor is a dentist. Do you mean the hair transplant was performed by a dentist?

Yes Exactly. Unfortunately it's allowed here. 

[Future Hair Doc]

Your friend needs to see a doctor NOW. It definitely looks like hypertrophic scarring and the beginnings of necrosis. 

[jagdish]

3 minutes ago, Westview said:

I'm not a doctor but it looks like a giant bloodclot or maybe a hematoma??

Also, I'm 99% certain that is not 3,000 grafts.  Like not even close

You are perfect on the point that it's not even close to 3,000 grafts. It's a very badly done surgery.

[jagdish]

1 minute ago, Dr. Suhail Khokhar said:

Your friend needs to see a doctor NOW. It definitely looks like hypertrophic scarring and the beginnings of necrosis. 

@Dr. Suhail Khokhar Thank you for your response. 

I will try to make sure that he will reach out to a doctor tomorrow. 

[Britanium]

This is just awful, feel sorry for the guy. This is going to lead to permanent scarring most likely. And who knows what kind of result from the Dentist/Dr who has done this very poor procedure. To say it’s not them who have caused it is ridiculous. 

[Westview]

47 minutes ago, Dr. Suhail Khokhar said:

Your friend needs to see a doctor NOW. It definitely looks like hypertrophic scarring and the beginnings of necrosis. 

Good advice.  Go to an emergency room maybe??

[ITA]

In India at the moment it is not easy to be visited in the emergency room, due to Covid

[Future Hair Doc]

Yeah, India is facing a huge covid surge. The ER there probably won't even see him unfortunately 

[bald-and-bearded]

I had thought general plastic surgeons doing hair transplants was too much but dentist?

I hope the patient gets through this without trouble. Please keep us posted OP.

[Hair Triggered]

Possible Gangrene crepitus infection . You can see blistering or gas under skin. This is an emergency. Would see ER today regardless.

[jagdish]

I got couple of back shots from him and it looks like even the extraction was done improperly. He will be going to a dermatologist today.

[jagdish]

One correction, the doctor is not just a dentist but a Maxillofacial Surgeon as well, so I believe she is qualified for Hair Transplant surgery. But looks like she is not much experienced.

[Britanium]

Poor chap. This is a awful extraction from his donor area. Thanks for helping him 🙏

[Doron Harati]

My heart goes out for this paitent 🙏🏻

[DrTBarghouthi]

Thanks. Please keep us updated. 

[MachoVato]

Thanks to @DrTBarghouthi and @Dr. Suhail Khokhar for advice. It keeps this board healthy! 👍

[Doron Harati]

If you can share more photos of the procedure it will help, I can ask our doctors at HDC to review what happened.