HAIR TRANSPLANT FORUM

Posted by Bishop W. Wayne Pugh

Dear C.M
I searched all over the Southeast for the best hair transplant available. After meeting with many Doctors and patients, we made a decision that I have never regretted. Dr. John Cole and the team at The Cole Hair Transplant Group were the best I have ever seen. I was treated with the highest of respect and in a very professional way.
I have been pleased with the ...

Case 1
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here is the result of three passes. The top left photos is a crown and top after 10 strip procedures, 6 scalp reductions including one Frechet extender. You see only a handful of scalp hair grafts in the top left hand crown photo. After his donor area was almost completely exhausted from multiple procedures he turned to the only remaining alternative- body hair.

All the grafts in the crown subsequent to the ...

Attached are magnified scalp samples of a patient who presented his case to us today. The right-mastoid sample area depicts clusters of healthily growing follicular families while the frontal sample area depicts follicular groups succumbing to the effects of DHT. These photos illustrate the process of miniaturization in patterned hair loss. In other words, the hairs are not “falling out” over the scalp, but rather they are shrinking progressively and irregularly in the male-pattern area. ...

One of the things you will notice about Dr. Cole’s website besides extremely satisfied patients, are the large, clear, detailed Patient Gallery photos.

I was recently banned from another forum for attempting to discuss my observation, that many hair transplant doctor’s websites deliberately provide small, dark, slightly out of focus Patient Gallery Images in an effort to hide details that would detract from the result if they were identified.

At the mention of this, the ...

One of the most common complications observed after hair transplant surgery is forehead edema (swelling) and subsequent periorbital ecchymosis (bruising around the eyes). This occurs as fluid from the recipient area migrates downward along tissue planes from the top of the head to the upper forehead, then to the area above the eyebrows and eventually down around the eyes, where the appearance of bruising can be cosmetically distressing to the patient.
Several therapeutic modalities have ...