HAIR TRANSPLANT FORUM

This patient came to our clinic in hopes of obtaining a natural looking hair line via CIT. The patient’s previous procedure left the hairline very “pluggy” looking and noticeably mis-angled by a strip (FUT) clinic. For our surgical staff to provide corrective treatment on this patient, a plug redistribution session was necessary. In this repair session, we removed large follicular units (2 to 5 hair), dissected them and placed them back onto the hair line for a softer appearance. Often times patients want us to place these dissected follicular units back onto their donor areas to disguise scarring.

Being very displeased with his hair line, the patient contacted us to arrange repair. The purpose of this session was to remove the large grafts on the hair line. The session resulted in the redistribution of approximately 170 plugs that yielded approx. 371 grafts for placement back onto his frontal scalp via CIT. At 12 months post-op, you can now see a more natural result after one day of CIT repair.

Repair can be more difficult to accomplish than a typical hair transplant session. Repair cases also may require more than one session to reach each patient’s goals. This patient retuned after 12 months to add single hairs to the hair line for a more softer and full result. The final result can also require up to 12 months to fully mature as the scalp heals and reforms.

We are excited to present another successfully treated repair case and look forward to seeing the end result.

is there any visible scarring where the old grafts were removed? (I understand that all cuts create a scar, but it only seems important if its a visible scar)

The healing is usually excellent in almost all cases at our clinic. The sutures used on our repair patients also seem to help expedite the healing process. Some patients can see a slight change in pigment (hypo-pigmentation) on the locations where large grafts are removed. Scarring is not very visible and is very minimal in our repair cases. You can see from the attached photo that patients quickly recover after this procedure. The sutures usually come out after 4 or 5 days and there may be some pinkness on the area for a certain amount of time. Healing takes place from the minute the procedure is over until several months post-op.

The size of the incisions is very small and allows for the scalp to have the best chance to heal. These shallow incisions made by Dr. Cole are created by more than one device to allow less trauma to the scalp and yield the best aesthetic results. The size of the incision isn't necessarily going to dictate the size of a scar. This case shows how low visibility of scarring can be from days post-op until one year after the procedure.

Thanks for the fast reply.

Sparkysxx,

I am glad to be of service. Forhair and I, try to make a great effort to correspond with all forum viewers in a timely manner.

I am impressed with the repair. Those nasty hair lines are a pain for the guys who have bad work. This guy probably wears his hair in all kinds of styles!