Dr. Paul Shapiro, Dense pack Hair Line, 6 month Follow Up/2164 FU's

[Dr. Paul Shapiro]

This patient came in for his 6 month follow up appointment. He was a candidate for dense packing and I planted at densities up to 60 FU/sq.cm. He is a 38 year old male who has hair loss in the Norwood type II pattern. Most of the males in his family do not progress to more than a Norwood type IV but he does have an uncle who has Norwood type V hair loss. His donor density is average and he has very minimal crown loss.

In a patient like this I feel comfortable dense packing the hairline. If he was in his 20s or had a family history with more significant hair loss I may have chosen to keep the densities in the 30 to 40FU/sq.cm. range.

His hair count is as follows:

 

1 Hair FU 548

2 Hair FU 1061

3 Hair Fu 495

4 Hair FU 60

Total FU 2164

Total Hairs 4395

 

 

I can measure the exact density of my incisions by taking a close up photo in a one cm/sq view and then counting the incisions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dr. Paul Shapiro]

I have gotten some comments that there is not much of a change in this transplant. The patient's goal was to lower his hairline by about 1 centimeter and for it to be a subtle change so that no one knew he had a hair transplant. When doing a transplant like this one it may seem like there is no change but as you can see in the following photographs the hairline was lowered.

I have drawn in Red how far down we lowered the hairline. I also placed hair about 2 centimeters behind the hairline to give good density. When going into existing hair the change is not as significant as if one is going into a bald area.

This patient is very happy with his results.

 

THE RED LINE IS HOW MUCH WE LOWERED THE HAIRLINE

PRE-OP/POST OP COMPARISON CLOSE UP VIEWS TO SEE THAT THE HAIRLINE WAS LOWERED

Dr. Paul