Hair Transplant Blog Featuring John P. Cole, MD

This class 3 vertex patient has medium caliber, dark brown hair with well above average donor density. Dr. Cole’s treatment plan for this patient was to transfer 740 CIT/C2G grafts into the vertex. C2G is a CIT (non-strip) preparation method where advanced technology allows our surgical team to harvest over 1500 grafts in an 8-hour day, without exposing any scalp. This method gives our patients the option to leave our clinic without any trace of extraction/harvesting in the donor area. The goal of this patient was to improve the overall appearance and density in the vertex that once existed. Subsequent to the CIT procedure, the patient received a small session of micro/mini grafts. The pre-existing mini grafts may require redistribution to eliminate the grafted appearance.

Transplanting too high of a density into a recipient area that is already relatively dense can cause fatal trauma to the pre-existing (native) follicles. High densities placed into an already progressively thinning crown can create a bigger problem than most patients seem to know prior to the procedure. For example, a surgeon transplants 200 multi-hair grafts on a patient who only has a 50 sq. cm. size area of recession, the patient will have a great risk of having an unnatural appearance.
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Hair Transplant Video Results:
Here we have a 39 year old male, who was destined to be a class V. His request was for us to fill in the recessions, create a more dense frontal hairline, and add light coverage to the thinning crown.

Between early 2004 and late 2005, he had three smaller procedures, which together accounted for approx.4800 grafts, all via FIT/CIT technique. During his history of loss subsequent to his priors, he experienced additional loss therefore we transplanted on top once he came in during March of this year. In this year’s session, we transplanted approx 1200 grafts which include several hundred FIT farmed grafts to his donor.

 
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