The pattern shown in this photo shows that the grafts were removed with FUE in two stripes and will cause a see-through donor area when the hair grows out particularly if he cuts his hair short. The lower FUE harvest seems to come from the neck which is not permanent hair.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29310861
Wound healing is a natural process to restore the structure and function of injured or diseased tissues. Repair of a skin wound usually leads to a scar while regeneration implies fully recovery of function and structure of the damaged tissue. Adult skin wound usually heals with scar while fetal skin heals scarless. Hair regeneration in elderly scalp wound has never been observed. We reported an 80-year-old patient with a large wound on the scalp after excision of a basal cell carcinoma healed by secondary intention wound healing. The patient’s wound healed very well aesthetically. Interestingly, on approximate post wound day 180, a hair was observed to be growing towards the surface and eventually erupted in the center of the wound. The hair remained black at 42-month follow-up. This case demonstrated that neogenesis of hair is possible even in geriatric patient. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of hair regrow in human skin after wound healing.
Basal cell carcinoma; Hair follicle; Regeneration; Secondary intention healing
2018-04-03 06:05:322018-06-21 09:54:53Unusual Case of a Wound Healing That Produced Hair Where There Was None Before
2018-11-12 07:59:022018-11-01 06:46:40I Have an Unhealed Wound 3 Weeks After My Hair Transplant.
The pictures only show your over-harvested donor area. If I understand you correctly, you had the FUE with an over-harvested donor area to fix the SMP you had done. The only way to correct the over-harvested donor area is with SMP. Nothing is perfect, but our overall satisfaction for SMP is very high in our hands. You need SMP for your donor area because that is why people are looking at you.
I regret my micropigmentation + FUE transplant. (Pics) from tressless
2019-06-04 15:07:002019-06-04 15:07:30Unhappy with SMP and FUE (from Reddit)
Last week, I met with two patients who came to me with thinning hair. One was 19 and the other was 22. The 19 year old had very early miniaturization, evident by the measurements that were taken of his scalp, and I built a Master Plan for him and advised him to go on Propecia. The 22 year old had clear thinning in the frontal 2 inches of his hairline with 40-50% miniaturization and a thin type hair shaft. The thin hair shaft made his miniaturization look worse than if his hair had been more coarse.
Both of these young men went to these doctors before they came to see me (and no, I won’t name names). In my opinion, both patients should not have hair transplants at this time; certainly the 19 year old is not a candidate at all and probably will not be for years, and the 22 year old may become a candidate if the Propecia does not stop or reverse his hair loss to meet his goals. However, the 22 year old might be able to avoid a hair transplant if the Propecia works well for him. The lack of ethics of the two doctors who viewed both men and gave them both recommendations of 3000 grafts each reflect the ‘scum’ of the hair transplant industry. I know I’ve written on this topic a few times before, but it truly outrages me and demands this repetition. Performing surgery when it could be avoided with a simple daily medication shows that the doctors were chasing their patient’s pocketbooks, not pursuing their patients best interests. Fortunately, both patients liked my advice and will see me for a follow-up in a year or so. I am sure that they will get calls from these two doctors and/or their sales staffs and I strongly advised them to resist sales pressures to sell them what they do not need.
To make matters worse, in my normal examination I measured the hair density of the donor hair on these patients and found them both to be lower than average. That means that they might be limited as to what they can expect from a hair transplant when and if they balded. Both of the doctors that they met with just ran their hands over the patients’ scalp in the back of their heads and magically reported that they were unusually blessed with “lots of donor hair”. Neither of these doctors made a measurement of the donor density on either of these patients and as if by magic — *poof* — they had enough hair to meet the doctor’s income requirement. These scams are unfortunately common in this industry and I always warn patients that if the doctor does not precisely measure the donor density, they should run for the hills when told that their donor supply is good. Worst of all is the fact that if these men had undergone hair transplantation, their donor hair (which was limited in the first place) would be depleted, wasted, and worse yet, put in the wrong place. Over and over again I warn patients to do their diligence on the doctors they see and choose. This again, is a Buyer Beware market.
2007-10-12 15:32:182007-10-12 16:08:16Unfortunately, Some Hair Transplant Doctors Are Crooks
So I’ve been losing hair only only my left side of the hair line. And its gone pretty far back compared to the right. No sign of stopping. But one thing I learned was my scalp would hurt when I moved my hair and thats where I was losing hair. So where every it hurt, when I moved my hair, thats where it was thinning and I was losing hair. So why is that? and why am I still losing it.
2020-11-23 03:55:592020-11-04 10:01:55Uneven recession with Folliculitis Decalvans
Is it Normal for one hairline corner to not be connected to the sides of my hair? from tressless
This happens in balding men which is is not symmetrical. See a doctor who specializes in hair loss and find out if you are in the early stages of recession or balding
2017-12-20 07:31:452017-12-18 07:33:57Uneven hairline at 18
HERE IS A LETTER I SENT TO A PATIENT: “You have had previous hair transplants done by Dr. XXX with 3400 grafts in the front of your head. You were very frightened about the prospect of being bald at that age of 23. Now you are 31 years old and started Propecia 4 months ago. You want to know the status of your balding situation.
This is a note I sent to a patient I saw today.
You have had previous hair transplants done by a Los Angeles doctor who has since lost his license. You received 3400 grafts in the front of your head. You were very frightened about the prospect of being bald at that age of 23. Now you are 31 years old and started Propecia 4 months ago. You want to know the status of your balding situation.
Dear Dr. Rassman,
I will like to know if you can you tell that someone had a hair transplant by looking at it?
Hair grows naturally in units of 1, 2, and 3 hairs each. The frontal hairline always has single hairs and a transition zone of these single hairs starts at the forehead (more widely spaced) and they then get closer together as you look further back into the actual denser hair. Within ¼ of an inch, these single hairs get noticeably denser and then groups of 2 hairs start appearing. I say this because to make a hair transplant look like God’s work, God’s design must be copied. The single hair leading edge of a non-transplanted person is erratic and disorderly. It is not heavy, so the idea that there is a ‘line’ with a hairline is a misconception. The transition zone makes the hairline imperceptible. If the pattern is created by the transplant surgeon with enough hair to mimic the normal transition zone, an observer should not be able to see a hairline nor a hair transplant. At our open house events (which we hold every month at each office) the people are amazed that they can not pick out those who had hair transplants from those that did not.
So simply answered, in 95% of all cases, a hair transplant should not be detectable as a hair transplant if there is enough hair to address the needs of the patient. Look at this video of a completely transplanted frontal hairline worked with a comb. Please note that this patient has a high contrast black hair against a light skin color (the most demanding combination). If there is anything abnormal looking about a hair transplant, it will always show up in someone with black hair and light skin.
