Patient Example

Some patients just have below average head donor supply and would have very little head hair to spare for traditional transplants. One such patient realized that after 1 strip surgery at another clinic of only 1800 grafts his head donor was too depleted to meet the rest of his needs. Although we was not disfigured from the surgery but for the single linear scar, he was still bald and his hairline was too high for a young man in his twenties. The patient himself was a physician and resorted to Dr. Umar who augmented his head donor pool with beard, nape and chest. Using the SFET – FUE and SFET – BHT approach Dr. Umar grafted the patients scar, advanced and refined the patient’s hairline as well as adding density to his entire bald areas. The patient who is depicted in this video states: “I’m really happy with it…there is nothing else to say”

Some patients have reconciled to using a hairpiece for ever. However, hairpiece users are aware of the embarrassment that follows detection of their ware. Consequently, all give away features of a hairpiece use should be minimized. Of these tell tale signs, the most common is the absence of a temple point in the presence of an advanced hairpiece hairline. The result is a loss of synchrony that is readily picked up by the casual eye. The second give away sign is the absence of a hairline that shows the hair growing out of the skin. The patient depicted in the following video needed these issues addressed but had no head hair supply to make it possible. He saw Dr Umar 5 years ago for a repair. Dr Umar solved his problem using beard, chest and stomach area exclusively: